LAND | APPARATUS | TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES

The process of making work; shifting, moving, balancing and editing that occurs is often overlooked. At its core transitive properties is an procedural examination of this process. The lens and subject are derived from ongoing land(scape) investigations. However here, defined as an open ended project using those components distilled from other works and direct experience; the work functions almost as a logical equation, but broken down into its individual components then assessed and weighed for future use within the broader system.

Land and resources are basically traded, openly on the market. Public or not. The process of seeing the land(scape) as commodity is very much a part of culture. This is not the only side to the story. There is a certain, quite unique and broad set of alternative interpretations. Those that involve the lived notion of the landscape. Direct relationships with Land that define our live and identities; shared and individuated.

A “ground anchor” in the climbing community is basically a fixed spot somewhere on the ground that can be used as this foundation to create a system that protects the climber as they navigate their environment. The remainder of the work in the apparatus currently being explored is relatively straight forward; sky, horizon, ground… exploration.

This current work highlights the apparatus used to evaluate and explore the work of art itself. The system is open and undergoes countless iterations where the physical and theoretical inputs shift and the process is allowed to unfold. None the less, here it is discretely examined as a logical set and system of artifacts and art objects in play and communication with one another. Thick ceramic slabs, boulder fields apparently scaled and cut from their parent strata are held up by not so “bomber” placements while the very lived equipment used to protect and save the life of the artist have been thoughtfully articulated into balanced form. These components will continue their respective journeys, some exhibited, in formulation or not, some returning back the land… to see another day.

Project Duration | 90 Days + Post Production | 06.01.2026 - TBD

Status | Component Exhibition

INPUT(s)

Primary Physical Materials

MMM (Massively mixed media)

Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations

Landscape Theory, Surface Geology, Topology, Notions of Land Ownership, Surface Rights, Surveying, Systems Theory, Mathematical Equation, Identity, Trauma, Protection…

SYSTEM (aka. Apparatus)

Materials

MMM (Massively mixed media)

Method

Isolate and emphasize the notion of constructing, assessing, and balancing a critical system.

OUTPUT(s)

Apparatus, Compositions (equations) & Sculptural Object(s) | To Be Exhibited as installation or artifact.

Video | Documentation and sculptural component. TBE

Photography & Print | Documentation and Limited Purchase, TBE

Ongoing projects are supported through output sales, project grants and in-kind donations.

Grant Providers and other donors may be found here.

• Yvonne Shortt + RPGA | NYSCA, Artist/Project Microgrant

Project outputs available for purchase are linked below.

On Exhibit @ Sally D. Fransisco Gallery | Making Matters | Peter’s Valley School of Craft