2020 Changing Time, Changing Place - Bozeman, MT
We live in a time of constant and rapid change, in which we permanently learn how to adapt, navigate, self-direct, and collaborate. We see it in our lives, neighborhoods, countries, and the world we live in.
Changing Time, Changing Place is a site-responsive work that contains two mural paintings and a sculpture and speaks about our changing relationships to public spaces around our town. This is my response to what I see and experience in this part of Bozeman, a place in which the past, present, and future are visibly gathered.
In my paintings, I used elements chosen from the surroundings. A walk around the area would reveal some of them – certain buildings and poles, a metal scoop, construction plans and structures, the rhythm and repetition of sounds, and local stories. To me, this neighborhood is all about lines: metal or wooden house siding, electrical poles and cables, ninety-degree escape stairs, metal structures with long histories, and train rails. Each of the three works tells a story of how past, present, and future coexist and reflect in one another. They portray the way we respond when familiar and unfamiliar intersect in a place that is morphing with or without our desire to do so.
