Sweetwater Branch by Farrell

Sweetwater Overlook
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I had been sitting there for two hours, like I had the day before, the day before that, and many other days recent. He approached in a suit and paid me no mind. He walked to the fence overlooking the grasslands. He stopped where he could go no farther. He clasped his right hand in his left and looked up towards the clouds. They were moving twice as fast now...sliding toward eachother like two cars rolling to a collision. The wind started roaring and I kept watching. Seven birds caught current directly above his prematurely balding head. He fell to his knees and began rocking into the fence. I felt my eyes voyeuristically burning into his intensely private moment. I felt the rage and the loss he felt amidst the vast plains. I became him. For a few seconds plains, winds, birds, he and I had the same intense passion.

V.A.G.A.B.O.N.D.

Mail Art Exhibit

At one moment we have stood feet to earth and have felt a calm so great that the only way we know how to describe it is peace. It is a delicious satisfaction... a sort of cosmic orgasm if you will. It is a confidence, a reassurance. It is a sweet surrender into the forces of nature that we cannot control.

At one moment we have set our gaze in the direction of the wind and have let it carry our breath where it will. We have let go of our own brainwashed urge to tame the things around and within us and we have felt at one with ourselves and every thing on the planet.

At this one moment we have felt it right to die and we have felt it right to live and we have realized that it is without our direct control and we don't care.


This exhibit is an attempt to evaluate these experiences. Within and without the confines of this box, we will be using nature as our muse to guide us in our creations. You are free to do whatever you wish with this box (i.e. break it down, drill in to it, paint it, burn it to dust...). There are no limits except that you must be reacting to a personal experience that you have had with nature (or are having with nature). Please post photos of your completed project, reactions to the project you have received, or any relevant ideas you have to this blog.

Conceptual Goal of this exhibit: Directly and indirectly we will be addressing the dislocation of natural space and the (in)tangibility of sacred nature experiences. Artists of all genres and of all countries have worked under the influence of nature- highs. With this simple mail art experiment, I hope to call on artists to connect with this high.

I can't wait to see what happens!