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Teal Gardner’s Ecogeoglyphic Observatory and Assembly at Ming Studios, Boise, Idaho, October 19, 2022.
The exhibition included three concurrent videos, hands on overhead projection, soundscape of field recordings, and local foraged apples.
The Ecogeoglyphic Observatory (fondly referred to as the EGG) is a project, initiated by Teal Gardner, that explores the curious dynamics of present-day industrial development in the region surrounding Boise, and the effects that this process has over the plants, animals, water, stone, soil and people who exist here.
Ecogegolyphic is a neologism coined by Teal. She breaks it down into three parts:
Eco - ecology - from oikos, Ancient Greek for house/home. Invoking our home place.
Geo - earth - from gê, Ancient Greek for earth. Invoking the material earth.
Glyphic - carve - from glyphē, Greek for carve/hollow/engrave. Invoking the act of writing, of carving into stone.
But why focus on Development at all?
''Perhaps I am so compelled because I love this place, all the way down. I feel sensitive to the dirt, the rocks, the plants, the animals here, and I want to think of them as being inherently valuable. I also don’t want to assume that the ways Development scours across the land is inevitable. I see the logic of Development as the language of our time, written on the earth. I wonder what effects present day choices are having over the long-term viability of this place as a home.'' -Teal Gardner
The exhibition included three concurrent videos, hands on overhead projection, soundscape of field recordings, and local foraged apples.
The Ecogeoglyphic Observatory (fondly referred to as the EGG) is a project, initiated by Teal Gardner, that explores the curious dynamics of present-day industrial development in the region surrounding Boise, and the effects that this process has over the plants, animals, water, stone, soil and people who exist here.
Ecogegolyphic is a neologism coined by Teal. She breaks it down into three parts:
Eco - ecology - from oikos, Ancient Greek for house/home. Invoking our home place.
Geo - earth - from gê, Ancient Greek for earth. Invoking the material earth.
Glyphic - carve - from glyphē, Greek for carve/hollow/engrave. Invoking the act of writing, of carving into stone.
But why focus on Development at all?
''Perhaps I am so compelled because I love this place, all the way down. I feel sensitive to the dirt, the rocks, the plants, the animals here, and I want to think of them as being inherently valuable. I also don’t want to assume that the ways Development scours across the land is inevitable. I see the logic of Development as the language of our time, written on the earth. I wonder what effects present day choices are having over the long-term viability of this place as a home.'' -Teal Gardner
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- Teal Gardner - Ecogeoglyphic Observatory
