Drift & Light
Drift & Light, 2024. 6' x 13' photographic wall text and broadside
The rhythm of walking creates subtle shifts and connections between the foot and the ground, revealing moments of compaction, friction, and displacement; soil is kicked up, eroded by steps, stuck to our feet, moved by water, buoyed by wind. Walking traces a living exchange with the land. In the Medieval era, Christian pilgrims followed the path of the Milky Way to the shrine of Saint James in Spain, looking to the stars to locate themselves in a heavenly parallel to the earthly pathways they inscribed. Drift & Light considers this mirrored participation, enacting a form of dialogue between sky and land. (Image: Luke Myers)
For the exhibition In the Room by the Ocean, July 19 - August 18 2024, 464 Main, Rockland, Maine.