A WEE BIO
A little about me.
Scientific theory and experimentation provide me with concepts onto which I
apply fictions, in the form of imaginary scientific instruments and data. The work reflects aspects of the human experience that are not (at least not
yet) measurable by scientific instrumentation. I ask myself, what if's
...What if we had an instrument that could identify and interpret our
memories from a shred of cloth; or map our memories of a coastline now
submerged by sea level rise? What if we could compose a quartet from sounds extracted from silent materials such as hair, dust, mud, air. (For more, visit http://www.carriecrane.com/
I am excited by new discoveries in science. For example, the recent understanding that trees (and other plant life) communicate using a
mycchorizal network gives me great joy as it opens up possibilities for
discovery of other yet unknown relationships among life forms. It
re-enforces the notion that there is more going on than we can possibly
imagine. It becomes my job as an artist to imagine what that might be as
best I can.
I live in a rural area in central Massachusetts, surrounded by fields and
trees and a pond. I walk in the woods daily with my dog and
subconsciously soak in my surroundings. I think of it mostly as exercise
but is serves to calm me. I studied Geography/Cartography for my
undergrad degree and mapping shows up in my work fairly often. As I
walk, I always have my location mentally mapped from a birds eye
perspective and think about natural and man made paths and boundaries
and their histories as I walk.
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