"CRISIS IN CARE"
ROSS SHEEHAN
My work is about capturing the things that we tend to overlook everyday. The thresholds of everyday life are peculiar places, neither here nor there, hovering in-between two worlds. These liminal spaces hold truthful evidence of what has been, and what may occur. I employ techniques of mapmaking and information collection while drifting through everyday routines and ordinary situations in and around found liminal spaces at the outskirts of my city, South Burlington, Vermont. I search for ways to understand the clash between urban sprawl and raw, unaltered nature there. Investigating my city has made my work personal and honest to me, and life’s little secrets come out in real time, or through recent memory of my place. I gather topographical documentation as evidence through methods of pyschogeographical exploration, walking, object collecting, writing, video, photography, and other mixed media experiments. I aim to emphasize the importance of “getting lost” in quasi-urban environments. For me, the areas on the edges of my city hold truth, where urban development battles with elements of nature, creating an undeniable friction. Things happen there, history is formed. I wish to dissect the true meanings of “in-between” places, heterotopian spaces, and transitional microcosms that exist all around the expanding borders of my city.
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"CRISIS IN CARE"
ROSS SHEEHAN
My work is about capturing the things that we tend to overlook everyday. The thresholds of everyday life are peculiar places, neither here nor there, hovering in-between two worlds. These liminal spaces hold truthful evidence of what has been, and what may occur. I employ techniques of mapmaking and information collection while drifting through everyday routines and ordinary situations in and around found liminal spaces at the outskirts of my city, South Burlington, Vermont. I search for ways to understand the clash between urban sprawl and raw, unaltered nature there. Investigating my city has made my work personal and honest to me, and life’s little secrets come out in real time, or through recent memory of my place. I gather topographical documentation as evidence through methods of pyschogeographical exploration, walking, object collecting, writing, video, photography, and other mixed media experiments. I aim to emphasize the importance of “getting lost” in quasi-urban environments. For me, the areas on the edges of my city hold truth, where urban development battles with elements of nature, creating an undeniable friction. Things happen there, history is formed. I wish to dissect the true meanings of “in-between” places, heterotopian spaces, and transitional microcosms that exist all around the expanding borders of my city.
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