In The News...Anne Saint-Pierre

Great news! “Roots” has been published in the Photo Daily News blog of the French magazine L’ Oeil de la Photographie. It was nominated by reviewers Midori Yamamura Lecturer/MoMA,Prof/Fordham and A.D. Coleman Critic, Historian, Educator, and Curator, at the ASMP 2016 Fine Arts Portfolio Review. 




http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2016/03/10/article/159893186/asmp-ny-2016-anne-saint-pierre/

Anne's photographs will be featured in the exhibition catalog of What This Journey Breeds.

Fordham Senior Kaitlyn Lyngaas

From the pages of Fordham News:

http://news.fordham.edu/fordham-magazine/humanitarian-affairs-major-helps-refugees-find-a-secure-life/

Check out her story working with refugees.

https://vimeo.com/158929876

Here is Maria's interview

Password: wtjb

James McCraken: Second Iteration - Working on final edit

Margaret McCauley: Second Iteration

Starting a garden

Throughout the garden there will be wood posts, painted in different colors, which will correspond to a guide (on paper) for viewers to use as they walk through. Instead of these posts indicating the type of plant in the garden, as is typically done, they will describe a part of the process of cultivating the garden. 

The last post in the garden will be rooted at the end of the walk, near the far window that connects the garden with the RIF indoor meeting space. The sign will read "new entry: begin again." The importance of consistently "beginning again" is essential to meditative/mindfulness practice: if you lose focus, or you lose the pace of your breath, you simply begin again. There is no point at which one is enlightened and never encounters resistance, defeat, or failure again; rather, the importance is placed on the ability to begin again (and again and again). 

In that moment when the viewers reach the end of the walk and read the sign "new entry: begin again" they can view their reflection in the window, a type of discovery of themselves. A mirror will be placed directly in line with the window, either on the opposite wall in the garden, or the opposite wall inside the meeting space, to signify the perpetual nature of beginning again that we all experience on our own personal journey. In the moment that the viewer sees his or herself, they are entering another journey/space.

    

The RIF indoor meeting space symbolizes shelter, even in contrast to the garden, which is vulnerable to the elements. The window connecting the meeting room to the garden can symbolize one journey ending and another one beginning when an asylum seeker finds RIF. 

Some snapshots of both the garden views and the process of starting a garden. The captions roughly represent what will be labeled on the guide, and hopefully parallel to the journey of an asylum seeker or anyone in search of a deeper sense of self.

Potential garden layouts, the plausibility of which are yet to be determined but will ultimately be designed based on the purposes of the exhibition as well as efficiency and upkeep. 

Left: the window in the garden. Right: potential views through the window in the meeting space, with the mirror at the far end.

Soft Garden Iteration 2

I experimented with using painted paper as leaves, and started to explore creating a root system, either to help ground the plants to the floor or root them to the wall.

Stains: Second Iteration

Upcoming Asylum Support Meeting

Nicholas Eliades - Grange Rooftop System Diagram

In-Progress Illustration of Farming System 

My contribution to this exhibit is in two parts - the first is an info graphic of the Grange's rooftop system, while the second is a rendering of a potential RIF hub/healing space.

I'm midway through the diagram, the latest version of which you will see below.  My goal for this graphic is to make it detailed enough for potential clients, yet simple enough that even the youngest visitors to the farm could understand it.

Things that will be added in my next iteration: a color scheme that distinguishes each material; text that labels and describes each material; plants on top of the dirt mounds; a background (potentially some sort of image of the farm)

Let me know if you have any suggestions on what I've already done or plan to do!

Screening: Well-Founded Fear 3/11/16 6:00 PM SL24L

WHAT OTHER ARTISTS ARE MAKING

HUGH HAYDEN

Zelig, sharptail grouse feathers on logs, 18.5Wx15Lx10.5"H, 2013

still from Hugh the Hunter

Armor, cherry bark on Burberry coat, 32Wx12Dx36"H, 2014

http://www.hughhayden.com/

Well Founded Fear

"Those stark white offices were a set where America was colliding with the rest of the world several hundred times a day — and on an intimate basis. People from all over the planet were sitting in the waiting room for all sorts of good reasons somehow related to refugee and migration issues. Some of them had experiences that fit the narrow definition that would qualify them as refugees. Americans on the other side of the electronically-locked doors had to decide whom among them would be granted asylum."

From an interview with the film makers of Well Founded Fear.
Film will be screened on 3.11.16 at 6:00 PM in Room SL24L Lowenstein