Pack Title: PackPlace/Time: tidal marsh, Columbia River, Washington 2019 Size: backpack 6’4″ x 36″ x 32″Materials: waterside-found: styrofoam, trash-found: backpack frame, beachchair canvas, plastic buckle, free-pile found: fabric, roadside-found: strap Details (condensed):What is it that makes people want to take part in treks, feats of endurance for activism and action spurring change through what seems ridiculous, unimaginable or impossible? Within this work is a maximum carrying capacity that allows me to embrace struggle, both physically and conceptually. While struggling with Pack I am also struggling towards a lifestyle that is meaningful to me, struggling to maintain a sense of drive through political and environmental doom. Details (expanded):What is it that makes people want to take part in treks, feats of endurance for activism and action spurring change through what seems ridiculous, unimaginable or impossible? I use Pack to explore what it is feels like to almost not be able to do something. Within this work is a maximum carrying capacity that allows me to embrace struggle, both physically and conceptually. Doing something that is not easy, taking a risk, willing to fall down, fall over, get up and keep trying. There is perseverance, strength through difficulty in this work, both physically and metaphorically. While struggling with Pack out in a landscape I am also struggling towards a lifestyle that is meaningful to me, struggling to maintain a sense of drive through political and environmental doom. It is a process tinged with sadness and loneliness, navigating in the margins of places, walking the wrack line loaded with trash and marine debris. Walking in places where land and water meet, where humans and nature rub together leaving a sometimes-messy residue. As an artist spending time in this place I acknowledge and pay respect toward the Chinook and Lower Chinook and honor them as stewards of this unceded land throughout generations. Post navigation Ready or NotPack