Summer was supposed to go on much longer. Lots of ideas and ambition to MAKE ART gave way and instead the time was spent reading and eating, and trying to be outside at every moment possible. Some making did persist. Sourdough bread, focaccia bread, other, less-successful breads… Lots of amateur photography — trying in vain to capture that fleeting summer feeling when it seems like past and present are colliding all at once and the seconds tick by slowly, like hours, but it still feels all too fast — but obviously the camera on an iPhone 11 doesn’t quite cut it. Of course, there was the working and re-working of what was intended to be a Grand Mapping Project, but at the end of the day more work was put into creating the apparatus which would securely hold the mapping paper to the bottom of a shoe (photo 8/20) than was ever spent on walking around and making the maps themselves. At least it worked! Now the 5 finished maps are in a box inside a box, there’s no such thing as store-bought bread in this house anymore, and all of the projects that were supposed to happen this summer still live in the notes app of the iPhone 11 that takes such ordinary pictures.
Themes: childhood / memories and remembering / time (passing and gone and not yet here) / mapping / waste / the ephemeral / bread / rest / womanhood and motherhood / war / recording / existence through experience / the sun / beauty / reading / health / longevity / complicity / mundane.
Erica's Lemonade Stand 