Memory through Maintenance Study 002 by Kira Clingen

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Memory through Maintenance Study 002

This photogrammetry image is a composite image of 122 views of a Cryptomeria footbridge, built on the stumps of decaying Cryptomeria. The bridge was constructed using simple wood-working techniques in-situ, with the material harvested within the forest. This 3-dimensional composite image is then further distorted into a series of points with an assigned color value and exported as a 2-dimensional rendering. The act of producing the image by documenting, recording, compositing, and processing is parallel to the process of active management to construct the bridge through the forest, a second life for the tree harvested to develop the infrastructure to pass through the forest.

Kira Clingen

Photography 10 x 8 x 0.05 $100.00

Artist Statement:

My work explores the active expression of memory through ongoing processes of maintenance and care in the landscape. For the past five years, I have explored the neologism solastalgia, meaning an emotional distress caused by environmental change. Growing up on the coast, I identify my sense of solastalgia with coastal climate change - storm surges, sea level rise and increasing temperatures. In my work, I posit that solastalgia can be challenged through repetitive acts of care, or maintenance tasks in landscapes, from the scale of a single brick to a forest. In my work, what's next is not a reinvention or tabula rasa, it is a willingness to grapple and work with the present condition through acts of care and detailed study.