We are two artists, Gretchen Burger and Sarah Cameron Sunde, who have shared studio space for the last 4 years and ended up collaborating on a range of art works to investigate how we live in and with our communities (urban and rural, art and activist, human and environmental). What began as an urge to invite neighbors into a conversation about gentrification in our small hamlet in mid Hudson Valley NY has catalyzed 2 additional place-based projects exploring similar themes of: Who belongs in our communities?
What creates value in our communities? And how does belonging and value translate to how we relate to each other and the natural world around us? ADD MORE…. These are starting questions – ever evolving with on-going research, conversations, point of connections. Some methodologies and frameworks that inform our approach to this work: deep listening, utilizing embodiment as a measure for human (vs machine) scale and connection, the time markers and rhythms of the natural world, reciprocity as a foundation for exchange.