"Wild Geese". Completed for Time Studio. Fall 2022. Photography, video, illustration, basketmaking.
This assignment required us to use at least three different artistic mediums to explore one subject. Wild Geese, inspired by the poem of the same name by Mary Oliver, addresses family, freedom, purpose, and potential through basketmaking, photography, and poetry. Time was explored as the documentation of the basket making process condensed a long experience into a very short amount of time, using the time of day at the bottom of the video clips to alert the audience of how much time actually passed during the basketmaking. Similarly, recreations of childhood photos next to the original photo condensed an entire life into two frames. The basket represents the nest, the family, that we are all born into, and the photo assemblage and poem work to convey the freedom and potential you can grow into as you grow up and become your own person. Wild Geese required audience members to step into the assemblage and explore each item at their own pace. Each element of this piece - basket, photography, and poem - work together to create a coherent story about what it means to belong to the “family of things” but also become an individual with a unique story and purpose.
