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Alissa Ohashi’s community engagement “Sonder” installation in the Greenbox in Garden City, Idaho on April 1, 2022.
Her ancestral ties to Japanese internment camps during World War II peaked her interest in our "GreenBox," which we believe to be a mobile field office from that war. Alissa is expanding her installation at Surel's Place centered on the idea of "sonder" to include a community engagement installation in the GreenBox both on First Friday on April 1st and during her event on April 4th. This installation strives to make a small part of sonder visible-- that each random passerby is living a an epic story that continues invisibly around you. "I'm hoping that members of the community will visit the Green Box and participate in braiding yarn and connecting it with other yarn creations that have been installed by previous individuals that have visited the Green Box. I'm excited to see this idea manifest through different perspectives of people living in and passing through Garden City."
Ms. Ohashi is using her residency to research and explore ideas of the collective unconscious and mythology with the inclusion of the idea of "sonder" - which is the profound realization that each individual, including strangers you pass on the street, is living their own unique life that is as complex as your own, and that they are the main character in their story.
Alissa Ohashi is a lens-based, mixed media artist working with experimental photography, collage, printmaking and installation. Ohashi received her MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design and is an Adjunct Professor of Digital Photography at the University of Cincinnati. She was recently a Fellow at the Columbus Printed Arts Center and is exploring the deconstruction of identity and the reconstruction and reintegration of memory through philosophical, psychological and spiritual lenses. She was selected as an ArtPop award recipient and has had her documentary work featured on a billboard on the westside of
Her ancestral ties to Japanese internment camps during World War II peaked her interest in our "GreenBox," which we believe to be a mobile field office from that war. Alissa is expanding her installation at Surel's Place centered on the idea of "sonder" to include a community engagement installation in the GreenBox both on First Friday on April 1st and during her event on April 4th. This installation strives to make a small part of sonder visible-- that each random passerby is living a an epic story that continues invisibly around you. "I'm hoping that members of the community will visit the Green Box and participate in braiding yarn and connecting it with other yarn creations that have been installed by previous individuals that have visited the Green Box. I'm excited to see this idea manifest through different perspectives of people living in and passing through Garden City."
Ms. Ohashi is using her residency to research and explore ideas of the collective unconscious and mythology with the inclusion of the idea of "sonder" - which is the profound realization that each individual, including strangers you pass on the street, is living their own unique life that is as complex as your own, and that they are the main character in their story.
Alissa Ohashi is a lens-based, mixed media artist working with experimental photography, collage, printmaking and installation. Ohashi received her MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design and is an Adjunct Professor of Digital Photography at the University of Cincinnati. She was recently a Fellow at the Columbus Printed Arts Center and is exploring the deconstruction of identity and the reconstruction and reintegration of memory through philosophical, psychological and spiritual lenses. She was selected as an ArtPop award recipient and has had her documentary work featured on a billboard on the westside of
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