{"id":8274,"date":"2019-09-06T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2019-09-06T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:34:42","slug":"invitation-to-marfa-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8274","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to Marfa, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Marfa-Invitation-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Marfa-Invitation-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Marfa-Invitation-440x440.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Marfa-Invitation-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Marfa-Invitation.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please join us and meet Melissa Cameron for her solo&nbsp;exhibition opening of Marfa, TX.&nbsp;<\/strong><br>\n\t\t\t<br>\n\t\t\tMy past is a foreign country. We do things differently t\/here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In  2017 I went on vacation to Marfa, TX, with Bruce and Elaine. A town put  on the map as a railroad water stop, it\u2019s three hours drive from El  Paso and one hour from the Rio Grande. In the last century ranchers, rangers, POW\u2019s, and  refugees have all passed through. Since the 1970\u2019s it\u2019s been a permanent  home to the works of artist\/designer Donald Judd. Since his death these  installations, and his preserved studios, have drawn visitors from all  over the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marfa  is in the Chihuahuan desert; there, dropped steel has a long life on  the ground. Seeing steel, and knowing I could geotag what I picked up  using my phone\u2019s camera, I started a solo scavenger hunt. It covered a campsite; a former US  military base (now a part of the Chinati Foundation); the grounds of  hotels, diners, galleries and museums; and the dusty streets and  sidewalks of the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My\n time\/space capsule of finds moved continent with me in 2018-2019. It \nwas finally reopened in Perth. I printed the photos, matched and mapped \nthe finds, researched, and drew. I used this data, and the found \nobjects, to make jewellery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since\n childhood I have picked up bits of metal from the ground. In Marfa, \nrecording and collecting felt instinctive, inevitable. In Perth, I \nstruggled to understand my compulsion at that time and in that place. I \nhad to be with the collection and contextualize it, almost \narcheologically, in order to reimagine it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some finds have been altered significantly. Others minimally.  All have travelled far. As have I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Cameron<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2019<br>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening Friday 13 September\u00a0August 6pm &#8211; 8pm<br> <br> Exhibition dates 11 September &#8211; 13 October\u00a02019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Palmerston Lane, Manuka, ACT 2603 \u00a0 Phone +61 (0) 2\u00a061622761 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours Wed-Fri\u00a011-5 \u00a0Sat 11-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*images on the Bilk site by Melissa Cameron, Elaine Cheung and Bruce Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new solo exhibition at Bilk Gallery in Canberra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition","category-jewellery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8279,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions\/8279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}