Mustard Seeds
Interloc
September 2023
Interloc is a multidisciplinary art space that provides access to contemporary artists through exhibitions, events, and publications, directed by Alexis Iammarino and Maeve O’Regan since 2017.
Interloc
September 2023
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Last spring, I made open call
through social media for samples of unfired wild clay. The project was an
experiment to trace the threads connecting people and their places. In early
August, parcels of carefully wrapped clay appeared at the postal box. The clay
was dug by 15 pairs of hands, between 9 states, and two countries. Each sample
was packaged with care and attention– in Ziploc bags, wrapped in bubble wrap,
cushioned with packing peanuts, accompanied with letters describing where the
clays were found. As a collection, these samples illuminate shared
attentiveness toward handfuls of earth that would otherwise have gone
unnoticed. This project posits that clay foraging can be a tool for
connectivity across disparate landscapes.