Turn it Blue this November!!!

In this email:

• for the breath of a poem video and write-up
• On view at the Atlanta Airport – object n. object v.
• Turtle Island video collaboration with Kamala Sankaram
• Global Inversion is part of RUMINATION at the Portland Art Museum
• REP-HAIR-ATION on view at Decatur Arts Alliance
• 4 great shows in Portland!

Please click this link to view an amazing short video of my installation in Santa Cruz, for the breath of a poem shot and edited by Ella Anderson. It captures the feel of the installation so well – THANK YOU Ella! Ann Browning wrote a short review of the show that you can read here by scrolling to the bottom of City on a Hill Press.

object n. object v. will be on view October 2018 – October 2019 at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport in the E concourse as part of The Book as Art: Flight Edition exhibit. If you are traveling through that airport please check it out and send me a picture!

Undoing by Diane Jacobs.
I began my exploration of decolonizing the United States by drawing a map of the USA today. I inscribed Native nations, Hawaiian names for each state, demarcated original buffalo range, the slaughter, and stolen land. I erased borders, color-coded states according to the number of lynchings and hand wrote testimonies by enslaved Africans over the states that sanctioned slavery. I white-washed everything with gesso and stenciled TURTLE ISLAND in graphite. I collaged paper to indicate felony disenfranchisement restrictions by state and stamped my fingerprints to indicate the number of prisoners incarcerated in that state. 

This project is a collaboration between Kamala Sankaram (composer/performer based in New York City who is part of an operatic Bollywood surf-noir band called Bombay Rickey and myself over the course of 15 months. We got matched after signing up to participate in Artists Re_Solve. Kamala made a powerful video/sound piece Turtle Island from images taken during my art making process. Please watch the video here.

Turtle Island by Kamala Sankaram. 
The musical soundscape for Turtle Island was created in direct response to the development of the map images for Undoing. As the process of colonization transformed the natural landscape of the United States, the sound world similarly shifts from one of natural sounds to the sounds of industry. The soundscape begins with field recordings of insects, birds, and ocean waves. Gradually, these sounds are replaced by drones and percussion constructed from samples of industrial machines and drones from electric lights, radiators, and fans. The soundscape concludes with samples from shortwave numbers stations- radio broadcasts of unknown origin thought to be associated with government spycraft.

Global Inversion is part of a group show RUMINATION curated by Grace Kook-Anderson at the Portland Art Museum on the 4th floor in the NW Gallery thru April 2020.

REP-HAIR-ATION is on view in The Book as Art v.6.0 PULP exhibit at the Decatur Library until September 28, 2018. To view full catalog of show go to Decatur Arts Alliance website.

Check out these amazing shows in Portland:

Last days to see Ann Hamilton‘s HABITUS at Centennial Mills Pavilion on the waterfront 1362 Naito Pkwy. 
                 Saturday Sept. 15 & Sunday Sept. 16 3 – 7 PM.
Invisible Permission/An Exercise in Radical Listening – An Exhibition of Scent and Psyche by Catherine Haley Epstein at                      Luke’s Frame Shop September 7 – 30.
Tincture by Anne Greenwood at Outer Space Gallery September 14 – October 15.
Grocery by LeBrie Rich at Wolff Gallery September 5 – October 28.

You, Darkness by Wendy Given at Vernissage Fine Art August 7 – October 30.

Thank you for reading!!
Help get the VOTE out come November.
LOVE
diane