| Mary Corey March |
Installation and Performance
Dream Blanket A Participatory Installation.
Visitors to the gallery are encouraged to write a dream- a wish close to their heart down on a strip of wool and to weave it into the warp. As he weaving fills, it becomes a fabric capable of warming and sheltering built from the very ephemeral wishes of many people.
Materials: around 300 stripes of wool, each dyed a different color. Linen, river stones, undyed wool yarn, wood. Dreams.
Identity Tapestry
-a particapatory Installation
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Each participant (visitor) chooses a color of yarn they feel represents them from the shelf to the left. No two colors are the same, and each ball of yarn holds a stone in the center.
They unravel it, wrapping statements on the wall that they feel show something about who they are...
As each person maps aspects of their identity they leave a line- their mark on the drawing. Complex portraits develop as simple statements are linked together. Anyone coming later will be able to trace other participants' paths.
The Bridge
It was a vigil, a contemplation, a meditation within time and labor.
It was a transition between chaos and order, and an idea into tangible reality.Formlessness into form, which then unravels into formlessness again.
It is a cycle of creation and destruction, and the liminal space between them.
It is a an exploration of definition, process, and a meditation of all these things.The Journey, Witnessed
This piece was done as a way of showing some part of my meditation experiences to others in a visual way. The painting itself was done in oil and reads as womb-like, though some people also perceive a struggle in the form- a beating of fists. Both are integral to the experience.
I chose a location that I would feel comfortable meditating or "going Out" in, and wove the painting into the environment with thread I had color-mixed, carded and spun myself. I then went through all the external motions of my meditation, leaving the imagery in the painting and wool to translate some of the internal experience.
Materials- oil on canvas, spun thread, artist, the Boston Arboretum.
I am currently sorting and adjusting images from this piece to create another print series.
main photography collaborator: Hans Schröder
