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May 21, 2014.\u00a0Meeting with Mary Mattingly and Alex Priest at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art to discuss how I might take part in the Flock house when it is open and ready.<\/p>\n

I brought two paintings\u00a0that came out of my work as Harvest Studio with the Living Loess Tour<\/a>. I\u00a0give free mini-art lessons to visitors that take a self-tour to destinations up the Old Lincoln Highway and Loess Hills Trail, starting in Crescent, Iowa. \u00a0I like to combine a demonstration with an opportunity for people to take part. I am still working this out, but the pieces I brought are\u00a0examples of what I am working toward. \u00a0I made them\u00a0during a tour day which lasts from 9 -3. \u00a0I hung kraft paper on the wall and worked with terra-cotta, black and brown tempera paint.<\/p>\n

This first example is trying to represent\u00a0a prairie by stamping with real\u00a0prairie plants. I poured paint into a dish and dipped plants into the paint,\u00a0then pressed them against the paper on the wall. \u00a0In some cases I just used stems. The idea was to repeatedly do this to build up a sense of prairie texture,\u00a0not brush strokes or highly abstracted, alternating light and shadow.<\/p>\n

\"Prairie<\/a><\/p>\n

T<\/a>he next time I tried this process I decided I would build up a background\u00a0first,\u00a0using geometric stamps. \u00a0The idea was to create a sense of texture that I could overlay with plant pressings.\u00a0I brought large amaranth leaves, corn stalks and oats (left to right) to use for the overlay.<\/p>\n

\"amaranth<\/a><\/p>\n

Immediately, Alex used\u00a0a\u00a0word that was new to me.<\/p>\n

Palimpsest<\/strong><\/p>\n

|\u02c8palimp\u02ccsest |<\/span><\/p>\n

(p\u0103l\u2032\u012dmp-s\u0115st\u2032)<\/span><\/p>\n

noun<\/p>\n

Something reused or altered but still bearing\u00a0visible traces of its earlier form:<\/p>\n

A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment,\u00a0that has been written on more than once, with the\u00a0earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I loved the idea of working with stamps, stencils and adding text and images to build layers. I love how it could be about the future while appearing to be something ancient.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to develop the idea of Flock. \u00a0Maybe to create large layered sheets,\u00a0and then cut them into postcards to mail with messages in a flock. Or cut them into selected\u00a0triangles and hang them from screens to look like a flock of birds in flight. \u00a0To turn the Flock house into an exhibit that encased\u00a0its own flock.<\/p>\n

As we talked about these ideas, Alex envisioned the first layers could be made by\u00a0visitors to the Flock House on public view\u00a0in Bemis. New layers would be added\u00a0when I moved into the Flock house for a short residency.\u00a0To set up this beginning layer, we authored\u00a0a prompt.<\/p>\n

Think of something that used to be healthy, but now is toxic or perceived to be ruined.\u00a0What could its contribution be?\u00a0Write\u00a0and\u00a0draw your response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I began to imagine an open-ended process at every stage. \u00a0Before the Flock house. \u00a0During the Flock house. And after? It would be dismantled and left ready for the next resident. \u00a0Or be\u00a0packed up and transported to its new destination.<\/p>\n

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