Travel Patterns / Sara Schnadt (US)
Travel Patterns is a triptych of related works that consider the personal, psychological, and cultural aspects of living a multi-sited life.
Where I’ve Been And Where I Want To Go is an installation that is completed by the artist performing the chronology of her own travel history. A collage installation pieces together images from a wide range of current and historical sources including everywhere Schnadt has been and hopes to travel. Images are lined up by their horizon line and circulate the space at eye-level. As a meditation on the possibilities of travel and the impact of place on our own biographies, Schnadt travels from location to location trailing a length of string behind her that becomes a growing plane across the space, a visualization of a travel history.
Travelogue is a double-projection combining texts and images of landscape from a wide range of sources as a visual essay on changing and enduring perceptions of site and landscape, and what they say about us.
Before You Go, Are You There? is a sculpture about the psychology of wilderness travel and the idea of 'getting away'.
The word “nomadism” to me means accumulating more and more visual, spatial, and personal empathy for different parts of the world - what makes them unique, similar, complicated. It also means letting the activity travel and multi-sited living push the edges of my perception and identity.