This blog belongs to the Art In The Everyday course at Eastern Connecticut State University which explores everyday life experience through various frames of reference, including: sound, ephemeral sculpture, movement and community building.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Willimantic Floating Away
My group and I built a boat that we covered with pictures of Willimantic. These pictures represented the good parts of Willimantic and it also represented the diversity in this town. We wanted to show the history of the town and make the collage feel like a children’s story. We put the boat in the middle of the river and it floated down into a waterfall. Wanted to symbolize how the good parts of Willimantic have left and many people don’t realize how much history is in this town. Here are some pictures and a video.
Each group in the class began by posting a photograph of a potential "monument" site here in Willimantic, CT. Comments about the place accompanied these preliminary images. Then, each group's proposed temporal monument was performed/ made/ constructed, on or around April 8. Results posted to the left.
"Roadside Monument"
posted by Alex Moshier
from "Walking in the City," by Michel de Certeau
The story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They weave places together. They are not localized; they spatialize. See the Class's own Maps of Meandering>>>>>
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