place
~
it is
geography
topography
psychology
physiology
it is
memory
~
i went, with a friend...for a friend,
to
Elsewhere.
(
here is a nice piece about its history.)
i need little persuasion to go there; it is wonder in a bottle that has exploded out after a vigorous shaking. every visit yields new delights as well as reassuring old stand-bys.
~ like the bouncy-ball music alley iterations ~
the purpose of the evening's visit
to Elsewhere
my intellectual grounding in place-making is from an understanding of human occupation - a significant focus of the coursework for my occupational therapy degree. we are rooted in Place. & making this Place is a transaction between the human, the physical environment, and
purpose... need... meaning. (we occupation-based folks would take one more step & say that at the center of this transaction is occupation.)
i found it entirely appropriate to listen to my fellow greensborians present place-making ideas inside Elsewhere, which is filled with re-imagined and re-purposed nesting spaces.
what could you do with...? what if those...and that....could be this? exploring the infinitely small & unimaginably vast places of human experience.
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| closest |
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| closer |
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| close |
people live in this place of spaces. or space full of places. when i prowl around, which is what you
do at Elsewhere, i wonder how the living goes when the rooms return to the artists. although, for sure, they have signed on to this
living museum - to have their creations poked and prodded by the milling wanna-be's.
the transience of Elsewhere's art
is an essence of the process.
as is its function.
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| the alley behind |
even the chaos is not. there is method and order and beauty and artful
reason to every single splace (because i'm not sure every
space is, yet, a
place) i rest my eyes.
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| rainbow books |
we were hosted by the grandson
of the original proprietress
and fed by the artists a meal of
sweet potato soup, greens, bruschetta...
and a brownie
with which to reserve
our place.
the recipients, after a vote, of the two micro-grants were
