FIELDNOTES FROM THE GOWANUS

This blog is a collection of projects, documentation, writing and other ephemera from a visual research workshop led by The Canary Project and commissioned by Commissioned by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) in conjunction with the exhibition U-n-f-o-l-d: A Cultural Response to Climate Change.
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• Rebecca Volinsky, Perfume and Miasma

  

  perfume and miasma (2011)
  Rebecca Volinsky
  Video (5:05)
  
  I was struck by the strange aura of this place.  At once beautiful and repulsive, the Gowanus revealed itself to me slowly, layer by infinite layer.  A bird in the sky crosses paths with an airplane. Train tracks above.  A hidden life lives below the waters. Tires lining parts of the canal are marked with the horizontal insistence of the waters gentle tide.  Surrounded by bridges, factories, trash, plants and animals.  Endless juxtapositions. A thick layer of oil becomes the canal’s skin.