(Re)Collect: Watermark Art Center

(Re)Collect moved on from Eau Claire to Bemidji, MN during the summer 2024. With each beautiful venue, I was given an opportunity to install the exhibit in a spacious gallery with natural light.

I Collect once again invited viewers to give their input on the theme of the show by answering "What do you collect?" and "Why to you collect it?" Their responses were hung on pegboards suspended in the center of the exhibit.

From there, visitors could pivot right to explore Catalog and get a glimpse into what I collect: my personal Curiosity Cabinet. Alongside Catalog were the 3 framed works from the 'Plates' series and Disperse, with its handmade seeds spilling out from a podlike form.

Looking to the other side of the gallery, Inventory was suspended in the center of the room, this time mimicking the shoreline of nearby Lake Itasca, the headwaters to the Mississippi. Coffer and Arcana Entomological joined the tags on this side of the gallery.

I Collect was the first piece to be viewed as you entered Watermark

I Collect was the first piece to be viewed as you entered Watermark

Disperse in the foreground with According to some prearranged method (Plates series) and Catalog on the walls behind

Disperse in the foreground with According to some prearranged method (Plates series) and Catalog on the walls behind

An open drawer in Coffer with more of the gallery in view beyond

An open drawer in Coffer with more of the gallery in view beyond

A view of Inventory at night when the tag's shadows filled the floor

A view of Inventory at night when the tag's shadows filled the floor

Pegboards hung on both sides of the suspended walls so that I Collect could be viewed from both inside and outside the building.

Pegboards hung on both sides of the suspended walls so that I Collect could be viewed from both inside and outside the building.