| Someone walks up to a car, gets in, starts the engine and begins to drive. A feminine voice speaks as, in the background, the sounds of a long drive continue. Horns occasionally honk. Someone scrolls through the channels of the radio, listens for a while and finally turns it off. The engine idles briefly before the car stops. The voice finishes speaking as we hear someone exit the car, lock it, and walk away. |
| Writing & voiceover - Patricia Kalidonis
| Sound editing & audio description - RMR
| An intimate recitation:
January 1986 | Houston, TX | 8.5 lbs
When we are neither here nor there.
July 1986 | Houston, TX to Bakersfield, CA. 1668 miles | 9.1 lbs
We are in the ambiguity of liminal space.
December 1991 | Bakersfield, CA to Sacramento, CA. 278 miles. | 38 lbs
August 1993 | Sacramento, CA to Schaumburg, IL. 2,075 miles | 51 lbs
Between presence and absence.
July 1995 | Schaumburg, IL to Belmont, CA. 2182 miles | 63 lbs
Past and future.
October 2005 | Belmont, CA to San Mateo, CA. 4 miles | 141 lbs
April 2006 | San Mateo, CA to San Carlos, CA. 5 miles | 145 lbs
Call and response.
September 2008 | San Carlos, CA to Toronto, ON. 2,690 miles | 182 lbs
Changes have come thick and fast over the past year.
November 2009 | Toronto, ON to Albuquerque, NM. 1,789 miles | 161 lbs
Drastically shifting perspectives, routines and social roles.
February 2010 | Albuquerque, NM to Toronto, ON. 1,789 miles | 166 lbs
Physical isolation has closed many doors and connections.
November 2010 | Toronto, ON to Albuquerque, NM. 1,789 miles | 158 lbs
Virtual communities have created and opened up others.
April 2012 | Albuquerque, NM to Chicago, IL. 1,337 miles | 146 lbs
Our self-awareness and collective conscience hangs in between.
August 2014 | Chicago, IL to Portland, OR. 2,122 miles | 127 lbs
Expansion and contraction.
May 2019 | Portland, OR to Brooklyn, NY. 2,936 miles | 173 lbs
How do we navigate the threshold between what falls away and what we move towards?
April 2021 | Brooklyn, NY to Philadelphia, PA | 78 miles | 193 lbs
| Above is an exhibition lobby or anteroom. The text and/or audio as a resting place, and your chance to continue on with your viewing of the exhibition, or to exit back to the home page. On each of these pages, the artworks are framed by two photographs - the top of a ornate gold frame, and at the bottom of the page, the same image flipped upside down, creating the appearance of the lower part of an ornate gold frame casting overlapping shadows of purple and blue on a crisp white wall. |