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This Place Matters was created with the help of my fellow resident artists and with the poetry of residents Anthony Phillips, Grace Carmack, Sue McNally, and Emma Watt.
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The two sides of each drawing loosely mirror the other. The drawings started as a visual response to the poems featured.
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After the initial drawings were done the other artists of collaborate create were invited to improve/ develop/ change/ revise/ fix up/ gentrify/ the drawings.
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After which I could choose to “restore” one side of each drawing to my original. The other side I had to leave in it’s altered state. In a back and forth process the drawings built into two conflicting sides: one where I was stubbornly trying to maintain control, to “preserve” the image, and the other where I had no say.
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During the Your [ ____ ] Neighborhood show the audience was provided with a variety of drawing material and were invited to improve/ develop/ change/ revise/ fix up/ gentrify/ the drawings. Theirs was the last say as to what the drawings looked like, I was helpless to stop the change or change it back.
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This Place Matters was conceived and developed during Your [ ____ ] Neighborhood, cycle 5 of Forward Flux Productions’ collaborate create 21 day residency program in Seattle, May 2015. The artists of Your [ ____ ] Neighborhood explored concepts centered around Gentrification.
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