Maria Fee: Emplacement
Emplacement signals the way human energies share transactions with locality concurrent with the way place determines and absorbs human gestures. The activity, in this case, is a poetic enterprise, a humbling exercise that forfeits utopias as a solid solution to embrace awkward heterotopias, a world within a world reflecting places of uncommon multiplicities yielding the unexpected.
Nature’s contours galvanize the construction of a whimsical world. Hanging nests, draped forests, dappled pavilions are reactions to modes of alienation arising from modernity’s migrations, homogenizations, mechanizations, and relinquishing obligations to God, kin, and neighbor. If place is the ground for all social interactions, Emplacement reformulates indeterminate white walls into sacred sanctuaries, playful and alluring dwelling places enabling transcendence of self/selves to receive the world simultaneously as more,
and as is.
-Maria Fee
