current exhibition

Art From The Outpost: Field Notes, New Territory, and the Invisible Hamster
Dymph De Wild
Monday, March 26th - Thursday, April 5th

When I was about eight years old, my father would occasionally organize an early-morning expedition for my sister and myself to a nearby Dutch forest. The evening before the outing took place we would fill our red-and-green checkerboard backpacks with peanut butter sandwiches, flashlights, a cheap pair of plastic binoculars, block notebooks and pencils, a pair of tweezers and a small collecting box, two whistles with cords that we would wear on location and could use to rescue ourselves from dangerous animals and unfriendly people, and a box of bandages in case one of us tripped over a branch (usually me).

For centuries wanderlust has been associated with freedom, mobility, enrichment, development, connections, inventiveness, and also boundaries and displacement. Based on these thoughts, my current work represents an attempt to construct something out of small, humble, displaced, and discarded gleanings from walks in my now-American neighborhood. Referring to myself as a street-comber, I resurrect these combings by giving them a temporary yet dignified place, in- or outdoors.

 

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