A City-Wide Art Exhibit
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Kt Carney

When I first considered this project with its theme of travel and discovery, I thought about my travels: planning, purchasing plane and train tickets, packing and unpacking bags, and the hectic nature of traveling. Then I took a deep breath and thought about those times when discovery was more serendipitous. I remembered a song from the 1970’s: “Take a trip and never leave the farm.” Since I have been sketching tractors lately and making them in wire and large-scale steel rods, I decided to put a tractor in the case.

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Images and objects of a rural setting fill the case: a blazing ceramic tile sun is on the inside of the lid, warming the cool greens and earthy browns below. A gestural wire tractor sits idly by the planted rows of vegetation. A stream undulates through the farmland with the

"No Morning Sun Lasts the Whole Day"
Steel wire, ceramic tile, slumped clay, paint
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phrase “Time Lost is Never Found Again.” Bright colors suggest that time of the morning when all things are still possible. To accept the world and our own minds as a place of constant discovery is to embrace our limited time here and to make the most of it.