Habitat for Artists: OF NATURE
Chris Costan uses her pursuit of outdoor Interventions with a project titled OF NATURE, at Habitat for Artists Micro-Residency at ArtPort Kingston.
This installation presents a cave-like mythical place connecting to some versions of her ongoing Interventions. The small HFA East shed symbolizes the contained mind. The viewer traverses down a short walkway which leads to the small shed. Inside the shed (the mind) one encounters a group of the artist's "interventions" laid out on a table. Here one can leaf through the different interventions (or thoughts) where the viewer can witness a diary of what the artist has been thinking about. Since the shed does symbolize the mind including how the mind develops and how it works, the shed mirrors human development. There is a reflection on fairytales that often form a growing child.. Think of The Three Little Pigs with the house of sticks, or Briar Rose who falls asleep for a hundred years. Here, questions are raised on thoughts about human development, human behavior, and how we as a species separate from the rest of the animal kingdom. Questions are raised as to how and why we, humanity behave as we do, and why.
OF NATURE, at Habitat for Artists Micro-Residency
ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY, June, 2021
installation, varied materials
