Jul 20th 2019

Tracie Hayes: Place Picture, Earth Form

@ Wedge Projects

1448 W Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626

Opening Saturday, July 20th, from 5PM - 8PM

On view through Saturday, August 10th

1,000 counted steps, 10 steps at a time, 10 days moving, 20-degree move, 20-degree movement

with error
shaping

the non-biased biased human, counting
the hand-, eye-, pencil-, pen-, yarn-, laser-, scissor-, pixel-, air-, water-traced tracing
traced again

the paper
echoed paper

the on-humming
ongoing
going on, on
going
to go,
go
on

an immortal second
a split second infinite
a ghost, free-flung dangling

the ancient
water-color-prism-perception
captured aura

lost but found
perpetual ephemerality

“The words topography and geomorphic refer to the shape of the land: topography means ‘place picture,’ and geomorphic means ‘earth form.’ These geomorphic provinces represent natural units within which the boundaries of landforms are remarkably consistent with those of biological communities. That is, the shape of the earth influences climate, and climate influences the distribution of plants and animals.” *

*from Allan A. Schoenherr’s A Natural History of California

Tracie Hayes is an artist from Charlotte currently living in Chicago. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in art and a BS in biology, and will be starting her PhD in Population Biology at the University of California, Davis in the fall. Her work centers on site specificity, data collection, and the ecological address. She has shown her work at ADDS DONNA, Apparatus Projects, the Overlook Place, and Woman Made Gallery, among others, and has completed the FIELD/WORK Residency at the Chicago Artists Coalition and an art-science residency at PLAYA Summer Lake.

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