07/02/2025
It was a cloudy day. The rain threatened every hour. They had been sitting over a half of an hour waiting for the bus to come. The old woman looked down at her grandson who had just turned 11. The world was complicated. The forces were outraged and battling and morality had been captured. “Why are we here?” Her grandson asked her. “What am I really? “ he looked down at his arms examining his skin. “Are we part of something bigger?” He said as he stared curiously into her eyes. “You must find your heart beat.” She said as she placed her wrinkled hand over her heart, listening “and allow it to chime with the other heartbeats.” She placed her other hand on his heart, listening. “We are all unique patterns that meld and mix into universal compositions that create life” she said slowly and deliberately lowering her hands as the bus pulled up to the bus stop.
We had a blast presenting Totem, a projection installation at the Columbus Arts Festival. Totem is a co-created art installation made of white cubed cardboard boxes where each cube is spray painted by a different artist and stacked on top of each other. A universal pattern has been masked with tape onto the boxes and when the tape is removed it reveals the white layer of the box. These white lines that make up the patterns are then projected onto adding texture, motion, and color. We would love to see this installation scaled larger to make a totem garden with multiple totems representing the communities that painted them.
We feel it turned out beautiful/y. What do you think?
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