City Souvenirs
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City Souvenirs is an ongoing collaboration with Liene Bosquê. This project blends our interests in site-responsive work, the use of walking as a tool for art making, and the goal of creating tangible connections between people and place. Identifiable by our embroidered uniforms, hand-fabricated steel cart, and blocks of wet porcelain, we walk through neighborhoods in search of signature architectural details that visually and culturally define each place. By making direct impressions of these hallmarks in clay and inviting passersby to do the same, we build collections of objects that evidence the relationship between individuals and the urban landscape. The clay acts as a conduit to heighten an individual’s sensation of touch and physical connection to their surroundings, and the resulting impressions become records of particular moments between people and places. Installed in the gallery on hand-fabricated steel display systems, these fired porcelain objects become a map and archive of the character of each particular place. For more information, please visit the official City Souvenirs website.
