Today I am going to begin by admitting that none of my blog post were actually concieved as blog posts. Sometimes the contents of this blog are writings or essays that relate to my art practice. As I considered my online presence - it made sense to include these writings as a kind of connective tissue for the viewer. Personally - nothing makes me sleepier than the prospect of reading an essay so I embraced the blog as a means of communicating these ideas in a less formal and less soporific manner. Hopefully.
The next post is actually based on an academic paper I wrote for a project I developed in a Biomimicry class at Art Center College of Design under the tutelage of Nadine Dabby. The resulting final project was My Removed Mountain Memorial Project. The project was a proposal for a process that would dewater coal cleaning waste which could be then made into a building material and carbon sink. I feel like this project was a triumph for me - Nadine Dabby loved the work and I felt proud of turning my environmental fears into a really interesting solution and proposal for an art project.
With the recent Freedom Energy poisonous chemical leaks in West Virginia, the majority of the country is now being forced to consider the cost of reckless storage of checmical waste I was addressing in the project proposal. I feel like it is a good time to share this work in response to a trending topic - I am a sensitive person and still feel a deep connection to my former home - so it is in the interest of my self-preservation to do so.