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gestures of resistance, 2024 
OUTSIDE THE BOX / Akron, OH
a shipping container situated at
110 N Main St
Akron, OH 44308

September 06 – November 02, 2024

gestures of resistance subverts the context of the shipping container—the ultimate symbol of capitalist production—by reimagining the space as a vehicle for unfinished ideas and speculative acts of material resistance rather than products. This container is now an unassuming test site. A place to contemplate possibility. 

The starting point for this investigation is the anthotype, which involves using light sensitive pigment and the sun to “print” positive imagery onto a surface (a sort of natural dying-experimental photography-printmaking hybrid). The residues of my own consumption provide the source material for all of the pigments I’ve used—vegetable scraps, excess takeout condiments and grass clippings. I’m interested in experimentation instead of production, inefficiency instead of productivity, and process instead of product. The anthotype is all of these things. It is best created thoughtfully, slowly, but is ultimately ephemeral. The color will fade with time and exposure to the sun. Therefore, the end result is close to nothing at all. A faint surface stain is the only lasting evidence of the previous series of actions. 

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