My daughter's old boyfriend Peter gave me this sand that a friend had brought back from his tour of duty in Afganistan.
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Portrait by Tammy Byron for The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
'If you have 3 of something, it's a collection.' - some vendor on Etsy
Portrait by Tammy Byron for The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
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The Sand Project, Momentum VIII, George Marshall Store Gallery, May 2010
About the Sand Projext
Portrait in Sand and Dirt
The Sand Project began after a trip to the Natural History Museum in New York. I love the scientific aesthetic of the Hall of Biodiversity, where thousands of specimens, from tigers to fungi, are cataloged and presented. Soon I was eyeballing the collection of sand my daughter and I had collected over the years from our travels. I started to write a mini biography to accompany each vial of sand. As I went from one sand memory to the next it was becoming more and more evident how we are all linked to landscape - to place and to time. In short order, the sand and 100 attending memoirs took on the form of a family portrait without paint.
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- Christine might move to Utah, Coral Sand Dunes, Utah
- Alan Walsh’s Beach, Marshfield, Massachusetts
- Greyhound Bus Station, St James Street, Boston (go...
- Wingersheek Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts
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- Auntie’s House, Brant Rock, Massachusetts
- Petra, Jordan
- Pleasure Island, Wakefield, Massachusetts
- A Vote for Richard Nixon, Danang, Vietnam
- Normandy, France
- The North River, Hanover, Massachusetts
- Tientsin, China
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- Crane’s Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts
- Venice
- Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Grafton, Vermont
- Manhattan Beach, New York
- Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, California
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- Brighton Beach, New York
- Near Okinawa, Pacific Theatre
- V.A. Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii
- V.A. Hospital, San Diego, California
- Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles California
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- Afganistan 2010
- Amira's travels, Lebanan
- Beach by the Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois
- Kiev, Russia
- Winter Harbor, Maine
- Oceanside Beach, San Diego, California
- Stretch of sand across from Seabrook Station, Ham...
- Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts
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- Jody’s Dominican Divorce Sand, Playa Bonita, Domi...
- Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
- Diamond Head, Waikiki, Hawaii
- Sinai, Egypt
- The Biltmore, Providence, Rhode Island (taken fro...
- Mr. Swietek’s Funeral, Rockledge Country Club, Ha...
- Columbus Beach, Labbadee, Haiti
- Mr. Marino’s Gravesite, Melbourne, Florida
- Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois
- Lake Winnipesaukee, Meredith, New Hampshire
- Jordan Kelley goes to Alaska
- Paragon Park, Hull, Massachusetts (gone now)
- Giza
- Abu Simbel, Egypt
- Patmos, Greece
- The Bill Davies Paddle Out, Long Sands Beach, York...
- Coronado Hotel, Del Mar, California
- Nelson Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Hana Highway, Hawaii
- Fish Beach, Monhegan Island, Maine
- Arches National Park, Utah
- Big Sur, Pfeiffer Beach, California
- Stanley Beach, Hong Kong
- Baltic Sea, Mecklenburg, Germany
- Park under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, ...
- Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
- Harbor Beach, York, Maine
- Coki Beach, St Thomas
- Otis’s first yard, Pasadena, California
- Topaz Internment Camp, Abraham Utah
- Red Dirt from Oklahoma, Abe’s Walkabout
- Short Sands Beach, York, Maine
- Rockaway Beach, Long Island, New York
- Scusset Beach, Sandwich, Massachusetts (The Cape)
- Pat’s Big Send Off, Nashua Country Club, Nashua, N...
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About Me
- Lauren Gillette
- I am a conceptual artist whose work has underlying threads: biography, history, text, repetition and memory. And let’s put a big fat underline under biography, because that is the thread that runs through all the work. Biography. With each project I am attempting to bear witness. When Marvin Gaye called out, 'Can I get a witness?' I heard the call. And have felt the gravitational pull of projects that allow me to collect, chronicle and archive, tell and retell. I am working to reveal something emotive and intimate about each subject. My intent is to spark that last piece of the puzzle, a visceral thread of recognition in the viewer. Check out my work at laurengillette.com
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