#michelvarisco

[gloriamoncada]

@cacnola Had to get a photo of #photographer #MichelVarisco with her photograph titled #Crosshairs” during her visit at the #CAC today! https://www.instagram.com/p/BoVa7BbnvW5cNLrTuT2DGNh4nWqPU1giii1DWo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8y6kdaevdrcq

[variscomichel]

The prayer wheels “iconography” is based on maps of the Mississippi River which indicate 3 eras that the river has undergone over millennia. 

TOP RIVER: “Wild era” was before western settlements existed, when the Mississippi wound around un-leveed, ever flooding and dangerous, but a great builder of the country’s land with its deposits of sediment in the waters. 

MIDDLE RIVER: “Colonial plantation era” marks the beginning of land ownership and modest levees; this era also significantly represents the period of forced enslavement of African and Native Americans along its shores, which details the illicit source of energy of its day.  

BOTTOM RIVER: “Petrochemical corridor era,” also known as Cancer Alley, is the present day period of unsustainable energy and modern day land-loss. The engraved lines show the property ownership acreage and the cut out circles are corporate buildings. “Turning” maps courtesy of Kate Orff/Scape from Petrochemical America- Misrach/Orff, Aperture, 2012 with additions by the artist.

[byronkoukaras]

After watching #gleasonmovie got picture taken with #michelvarisco (at AMC Lincoln Square 13)

[variscomichel]

Creating one of the 3 mosaics as a base for the “Turning sculpture (prayer wheels)” with Italian porcelain. The pattern is of the Mississippi River creating new land over thousands of years (from the Fisk Maps of 1944). Each mosaic weighs about 200 lbs as finished discs. Many thanks to Keith Rogers for the help!

[variscomichel]

The wild Mississippi River detail from "Turning" prayer wheels sculpture.. #turning #livingwithwater #mississippiriver #michelvarisco