extra storage

This display exhibits the material that was produced for a variety of exhibits and happenings presented publicly to provoke dialogue and engagement with and by the audience concerning land use. The process of creating these pieces required active traversing of the landscape. The process in assembling the information required actively engaging with other artists and architects and students and workers. The process in absorbing the material required the audience to actively listen, write, and draw material. Once the process of making and having the exhibit was over, the work was put into a crate or rolled up and placed in my studio.

Alex and I originally met because he produced a book of every Circle K in Tucson and a person that knew both of us suggested he contact me because I had gone around town and taken a picture of every Circle K. We met sometime in early 2000 and my photos of the circle k’s took place in 1997.

My first thought was to display the images, the phonebook pages I used to find all the Circle K’s, and the map I made to circumvent around Tucson. This was done back in the day when I still used film and Google was a little-known search engine. But I couldn’t find the negatives or the phonebook pages I kept or the map.They were kept in a 9” x 12” white (or was it yellow?)Envelope with a circle drawn around a “k” in pencil on one of the sides. The envelope may have been from Photographic Works, the company that developed the film. I rearranged my studio last year and was flummoxed about its whereabouts. Maybe this is an opportunity to look again.

Alas, I couldn’t find it. But, as I rode my stationary bicycle in my studio and was looking at all the crates with all my exhibits packed into them, I thought why not exhibit these storaged exhibits in a storage shed?And, if I am lucky, as I go through the boxes to make sure all the exhibits are in their proper places, maybeI will find the negatives and the phonebook pages and the map.

The search is on.