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Earth

Project Elements Easthampton: Earth was a three-part multimedia exhibition incorporated installation, audio, photography, illustration, and historical study all about the city of Easthampton and its relationship to the element earth.


The project was:
The Living installation: An installation was a dynamically changing interactive exhibition, with audio, grass covered chairs, and photographs.

The Easthampton Alphabet: 26 illustrations of found historical stories.

An audio tour of Weird But True Stories: not typically known histories, but more unusual accounts about unknown characters and occurrences of Easthampton.


The Living installation was a dynamically changing interactive and immersive exhibition consisting of grass covered chairs that simultaneously acted as audio sculptures with telephones playing audio stories gathered from Easthamptonites and night photographs depicting Easthampton homes. The exhibition became a room of recreated streets with implied narratives.
Some visitors left their stories on a telephone provided at the installation site that were then added to the exhibition.Visitors also watched and participated while I seeded the chairs during the exhibition.
As part of a representation of the transformative quality of nature and recognition of growth and disintegration, the grass were grown and seeded throughout the exhibition. By the completion of the show, the chairs lived their life cycle and the grass decayed naturally. All of the decayed matter was composted or reused following the exhibition.
The last portion of the project was a self-guided audio tour of historical stories. These stories are not typically known histories, but more unusual accounts about unknown characters and occurrences of Easthampton. I researched this history for two years, combing through microfiche day by day, one month of history research taking an hours time. The original tour was set up as an audio cell-phone tour. Music for these stories was created by Timecard.