Art That Speaks: Rising Up Art Draws Crowds

As we reach the mid-point in the summer, and endure the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Art on the Trails has been a popular destination. In a time when most galleries are closed, an outdoor show is the closest many people can get to art this summer. We have seen record visitors, and now, poets are out visiting and writing work in response to the art.

This slide show provides a glimpse into the show.

Layered Lands

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Darcie DeAngelo | Layered Lands | Plastic flowers, acrylic globes, QR Codes | Not For Sale | In over 80 countries, you find landmines in places that inspire peacefulness. This is a strategy of war, I was told when conducting fieldwork in Cambodia. Soldiers planted explosives under trees or near streams where enemies would sit to rest or to drink water. These landmines now perpetuate the violence of war in times of peace. Layered Lands collides categories of space (Cambodia and the USA) and time (war and postwar)—a layering of a contaminated landscape on top of an uncontaminated one. Such collisions open up what it means to categorize a landscape as “uncontaminated” in the first place.



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