Memories and Musings
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Thank you to all who ventured over to my Open Studio during Art Walk on Friday night! Families, children, elected officials, Montana Arts Council members, my buddies at High Plains Architects, artist and curator colleagues, dear friends and friends I haven't seen in a while, and the curious. Far-ranging conversations... about city/county planning and community building and memory and collaborations and supporting family members and making mustard and graphic novels and how to depict water and being our true selves and very sweet discussions, with children, about how I could expand my projects. And then there was that spiced hot chocolate...
Thank you to Virginia Bryan and the Downtown #billingsartwalk for another opportunity to bring so many people downtown to enjoy our offerings.
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Thanks to all who came out for the “A Series of Fragments of Memories” show and “Luminous” in the other gallery! Lots of interaction and sharing of experiences at my piece “What [(Is It) About My] Memory” made this first mini-installation so satisfying.
Collin Kriner, Emily Botel, Courtney and Chris Scott, Judy Johnson-williams, Durba Ghatak Sen, Rebecca Stroth-Pickens And loved sharing the evening with the artists: Shannon Amidon, Katelyn Dorroh, Sally Beth Edelstein, Penny McElroy, Priscilla Otani, Blond Jenny and David Weinberg and especially Karen Gutfreund, the curator and artist. What [(Is It) About My] Memory? What about my memory? What memory? Somas http://www.sherricornett.com/somas-what-is-it-about-my-memory.html Memory Cards http://www.sherricornett.com/memory-cards-what-is-it-about-my-memory.html  Thank you to all who have shared their memories with me so far via the memory cards of my What [(Is It) About My] Memory project. They will be installed, with my Somas (http://www.sherricornett.com/somas-what-is-it-about-my-memory.html) as part of Karen's show "A Series of Fragments of Moments" at Arc Gallery San Francisco next month as prompts for visitors to recall their own memories and add, if they wish, to the collective memory in this project.
What a beautiful collection of story snippets about family, friends, nature, adventure, pets, humor, music. . . This project is ongoing, with many more Somas and Memory Cards in the works, so if any of you are interested in learning more and/or wish to participate, please let me know! Their are several ways to share your memories- including text, email and me sending you blank cards. And check out the Memory Card link.Thanks in advance for your consideration. Participants include: Abington Friends School (the second, third and fourth grades), Ann Botel-Barnard, Scott Botel-Barnard, Norma Buchanan and Family, Karen Gutfreund Kari McIntyre Kaiser, Linda Bria Lemire, Jodi Lightner, Rachel BB Mainwaring, Priscilla Otani, Debra Riezebeek, Rocky Mountain College Writing Classes (taught by Jaci Webb), Robin Taylor and University of Pennsylvania Professional Development Class for Teachers. What [(Is It) About My] Memory? What about my memory? What memory? While my mother was being diagnosed with frontal-temporal dementia and she was losing her own stories, my innate curiosity about memories, how the brain stores them and loses them, escalated. The neurologists and memory specialists fed me with new terminology, theories, suggestions for activities that preserve brain function, images and . . . more questions. How do we influence each other’s memories? How does telling our stories alter our memories? What is shared, collective, societal memory? I decided to use my personal history as my laboratory, as the creative resource for work about memory. And, then, develop ways to weave in other people’s memories and ways to explore those memory preservation activities with others. The beginning manifestations of all of this are the soma or neural cell body wall sculptures that are symbolic of particular groupings of memories in my own life. Wire dendrites and axons radiate out and hold tags upon which are written individual memories – my own, ones I have gathered from family and friends and, with the exhibition, those added by visitors. This project will continue to grow, with larger installations and more somas and more memory cards, in future venues. http://www.sherricornett.com/memory-cards-what-is-it-about-my-memory.html |
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