Wish You Were Here

Travel Art Project: Photography, Cultural Objects, Audio Recordings
Overland Trip Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan,
Collaboration with Joan Bayon Fontana 2011/2012
This work arose out of a personal challenge to create work while on the move. It was born on route on an overland trip from Greece to Azerbaijan. It focuses on the process of journey rather than in a final destination. Daily life, different cultures & personal experiences of them are the main themes. It is documentation of varying aspects of foreign cultures using varying methods of sensory engagement. The audience is invited to connect through language, daily life objects, photography & audio recordings.

The installation was an active space for exchange, which was alive & dynamic with the public actively engaging: touching, hearing, seeing, immersing themselves & responding. The public was invited to respond by entering a dialogue with the artists by sending them postcards of their thoughts.

Showing rather than the differences, the similarities & connections between countries & cultures. To become hunter gatherers, to visit, & to see what awoke interest, while creating art.
Traveling overland provided a wider framework from which to assimilate sights, sounds, interactions and experiences. It takes you through more conscious transition from place to place.
- Joan Bayon Fontana