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Mere Pond Lost + Found

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Mere Pond Lost + Found

Mere Pond Lost and Found is a visual expedition searching for the lost stories of muddy artifacts from Elm Park's Mere Ponds. Artist, Kate Egnaczak looks to the public to connect stories between the items left behind.

The three-part exhibition will include separate shows for each 'department': fashion, toys and accessories, and sporting goods. Each department documents and explores the artist's collections from Elm Park's Mere Ponds, displaying the original objects, still stiff with mud after drying in the sun on clotheslines in the artist’s park-based field station.

 

Kate studies the objects using continuous line drawings, closely examining the rips, wrinkles, stray stings, and impressions left by the last user. She considers the garbage treasured art-making materials; however, these displayed objects have more significant stories as artifacts. 

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Fashion

Wearable clothing and accessories

Virtual Exhibition

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I am my own constellation. Design is the telescoping ladder that I keep in my apron.

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As an interdisciplinary eco-artist, I am committed to challenging viewers to confront the impact of human actions on our natural environment. My work inspires social consciousness and sparks memories related to the act of disposal by transforming discarded materials into powerful public works of art. 


My practice is built upon three key methods: interactive fieldwork, arts-based research, and appropriation of industrial processes on a human scale. I use walking and a paddleboard to collect physical artifacts from locations to create site-specific mobile studios and perform acts of maintenance in the spaces where the materials were retrieved. Circularity is a central theme, where I become the mechanism for recycling and repurposing waste as a primary medium to drive the conversation around sustainable practices and the personal protection of our ecosystems.

 © 2021 by kathryn egnaczak

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