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An Escape and a Sharpening
A challenging race is a mind and body recalibration, and after this last year, with multiple new jobs, border running, a solo exhibition, and the holidays, not to mention the excruciating political season, I was overdue for a re-tuning. Taking the body … Continue reading
Posted in Half Marathon, Uncategorized
Tagged half marathon, Oracle Rumble, Oracle State Park, Running, travel
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Bedrock and Lousewort
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
Posted in Art, Borders, Maine, Running, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Common Street Arts, drawing, Gender and Identity, Photography
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The History of the Body
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
Posted in Art, Running, Uncategorized
Tagged Amy Stacey Curtis, Art, Memory, Running, Tracking the Border
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Tracking Narrative
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
Posted in Art, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Borders, Canada, Julie Poitras Santos, Kindling Grant, Maine, Tracking the Border
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What If?
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
Posted in Art, Paris, Running, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Bataclan, Borders, Lucinda Bliss, Paris, Tracking the Border
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Vibrating Through the Body
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
Posted in Art, Gardens, Monticello, Racing, Running, Uncategorized
Tagged Antietam, Art, drawing, Monticello, Slavery, Thomas Jefferson
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The Runner’s Glance in Paris
Things in Paris have changed since I wrote a few days ago, since the attacks of November 13th. Though Parisians and foreigners are once again out eating, shopping, working, going to school, and visiting tourist sites, there’s an undercurrent of tension. On … Continue reading
Geeking Out with Running Stories
This morning I ran an 11-mile out and back alongside the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona. The paved trail runs for 12 miles along both sides of the dry riverbed, which makes it perfect for long running. The trail is the main attraction of … Continue reading
Critical Engagement Playground
I was due to arrive at a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center in late October, and I needed to complete the last leg of the Sebago Lake to Casco Bay run before my departure from Maine. My plan … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Running, Uncategorized, Watersheds
Tagged Efrain Almeida, Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, Running, Sebago to Sea Trails, watershed
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