Category Archives: Art

Desert X: A Twist on “Monumental”

Posted on June 12, 2021 by lucindasrunningblog

I timed my annual trip to Arizona to visit my mom (writer Alison H. Deming), to intersect with Desert X 2021, the third iteration of a biennial exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley (this year curated by César García-Alvarez and Neville Wakefield). … Continue reading →

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Reading the Body: a Virtual Boston Marathon

Posted on November 16, 2020 by lucindasrunningblog

Qualifying for the Boston Marathon hadn’t been on my radar when I ran my first 26.2 in the Baystate Marathon. My goal had been to see if I could complete a full marathon in an intentional and controlled way. In … Continue reading →

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Falling in Love with Running, Again

Posted on March 21, 2020 by lucindasrunningblog

Last Sunday, I would have been racing the New Bedford Half Marathon as part of my Boston Marathon training. My aim was to go out at my marathon goal pace and then pick it up for the second half, basically … Continue reading →

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Art from the Edge of the World

Posted on November 19, 2017 by lucindasrunningblog

The Art + Environment conference at the Nevada Museum of Art takes place every 3  years. I attended for the first time in 2014 and felt like I was entering a living conversation–one that I would draw from in my art … Continue reading →

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X Marks the Spot

Posted on July 26, 2017 by lucindasrunningblog

On July 12th, I completed an interactive “garden intervention” at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. The intervention was the culmination of work I’d been doing in Ogunquit for a few months. Preparation involved researching the town’s history, on-the-ground exploring, … Continue reading →

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Bedrock and Lousewort

Posted on January 18, 2017 by lucindasrunningblog

  Opportunity has taken many forms this last year, and time for writing has been scarce! I’ve been fully absorbed in preparing for an exhibition that opens tomorrow, (January 19th, 2017) at Common Street Arts in Waterville, Maine. This exhibition is a book-end … Continue reading →

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The History of the Body

Posted on October 21, 2016 by lucindasrunningblog

I spent last weekend on the Maine-Canada border, exploring forested land in Coburn Gore and trying to get my eyes on the “Slash.” The Slash is a literal cut through the forest that marks the divide between Canada and the United … Continue reading →

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Tracking Narrative

Posted on October 3, 2016 by lucindasrunningblog

  It became clear early this year that my current project, Tracking the Border, would become a tracking of narrative as much as a navigation of the Maine-Canada divide. When I began to share news that I’d won a Kindling Grant (part of … Continue reading →

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What If?

Posted on June 1, 2016 by lucindasrunningblog

November 14, 2015, the day after the terrorist attacks, Paris was locked down. I was sequestered in the Hotel Henriette, tracking the unfolding events on TV. Throughout the day, details of the attacks slowly emerged, with updates about the ongoing hunt … Continue reading →

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Vibrating Through the Body

Posted on December 12, 2015 by lucindasrunningblog

A week after returning home from Paris, I packed up the car for a three week residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. On route down, I spontaneously veered off track to see the Antietam National Battlefield, in … Continue reading →

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