Mining Home
Statement by Megan
In Mining
Home, I was
interested in the unconventional manner in which Hortense Adams developed and
sustained her own life, the impact that in turn had on the community and how
that relates to the ideas of home and rootedness I explore in my own work. The window is a means to gaze in or out
of a home structure: to peer into one’s life or as a vessel to glance at what
is outside that domestic space that has been cultivated. In the case of these historical figures
such as Hortense, all we have are rudimentary facts about their life such as
her partnership in real estate and mine operations, platting the Locust Grove
Addition in 1894 and involvement in the Black Hornet mine. There is no sense as
to their happiness or sense of place they may have developed, who they really
were as people, or how their involvement contributed to generations of others
being able to nurture their own sense of home.
The forms beyond
the window are symbolic of this mining, but rather than ore coming from the crack,
it is a tangle of string or rope, dangling and resting on the ground, tied or
connected to nothing.
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