Lis Janes

Humans give meaning to land by marking and mapping. We give identity to the land by building buildings that then carry their own identity: a brownstone has different implied significance than a dormitory or a clapboard house. We give identity to a sheet of paper- We put markings on it that have significance and alert people to what has happened in the last twenty-four hours. More recently we have built computers that can tell us these things with up-to-the minute accuracy and cell phones that allow us to constantly be in touch with others. It is believed that the wireless signals from these products are causing a great and rapid disintegration of the planet: some of the scientists attempting to understand the current white-nose crisis in the bats of the Northeastern US are saying that it may be our penchant for wireless signals that is causing this illness.

For the remainder of the semester I am wrapping up my experimentations with materials (paper, printing and metal armature) and my goal for December is to have the project mapped out in a three-dimensional model.