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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• Daniella Garcia, We no longer reveal…

  

  

  We no longer reveal totality within ourselves by lightning flashes. We approach it through the accumulation of sediments. (2011)
  Daniella Garcia
  Mylar and Vitrail
  5’10” x 20” each

  On my way to the Gowanus canal, a place I never knew existed, I found myself lost and asking for directions. Instead of the simple north/south that I expected, I received mixed stories from people I encountered in the streets about where and what was the Gowanus. It’s somewhat uncertain past, present and future is stored in a myth making process by the imaginary of a community. Who was chief Gowane, and what does that mean? Who has he been and who might it now be?