SLIP
In late June 2013, four of us traveled through the night from Kansas City to a campsite near the Current River. We “put in” first thing in the morning and so began a new collection of experiences that subsequently informed much of this body of work titled “Slip.” I am interested in the things that are not measurable, consumable, or easily memorized. I am, rather, interested in paying attention to what exists in the margins of a life, in the uncluttered passages of time and space found just before falling asleep, of waking, or on a trip down a river. A trip floating along the Current River allowed this and as I reclined spay-legged in the canoe, my eyes moving up and down, from the sky to the treetops, the trunks of trees to the ground, to the rock and root and mud and finally landing on the rocky bottom of the river, I remembered how shocking it really is to be alive and on the planet.
Anne Austin Pearce
2016
Nature Tangible / Emotive Transient / Lingual Imagined
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Sky = Euphoria = Lighted
Treetops = Happiness = Howler
Ground = Calm = Ticking
Roots = Restless = Loosening
Under Earth = Despair = Clump