“Rockets can symbolize both exploration and imagination, but rockets can also be the delivery vehicle for destruction. In the classic sense, they are both creator and destroyer. In my artwork, rockets represent the cost of progress and the promise of the future.”
Living in the woods, I am surrounded by tree trunks: their roots deep in the earth, their crowns reaching up into the sky. The multitude of vertical lines the trees make – especially in winter – inspired me. From elm and ash trees I carved long oars which, over time, changed into spoons or pendulums.
Alisha Laramee is a writer whose work focuses on the multiple and complex ways that landscapes, cultures, and people produce one another. She has written extensively of her own travels and those of others both like and unlike her. Migration – forced, voluntary, return, renewed – is of special importance to her work.
Theofanis Nouskas was born on December 7, 1981, in Thessaloniki, Greece. He likes images, video and cinema, and hopes for a radical change in the educational system and the commercialization of art.
Stephanie Beck creates drawings, collages and cut-paper sculptures, and stages public-art interventions. Her work explores ideas of architecture, urban spaces and mapping.
