“CA Weaving” considers how nature and the built environment interact with each other, reflecting on California’s promises and failures in the environmental and housing crises it faces. I drove between Los Angeles and San Francisco over the last six months and shot 4k and 6k video as I drove in, out, and between the two cities on the I-5, the longest interstate in California. My editing weaves together this footage into a tapestry for the 150 Media Stream.
-Sabrina Gschwandtner, 2024
Commissioned by and exhibited at 150 Media Stream, Chicago IL in 2024
Photo: Michael Salisbury
Photo: Michael Salisbury
Photo: Michael Salisbury
Photo: Michael Salisbury
This piece is a triangular photo-collage that hangs with one point facing upwards, representative of a kite about to lift off. It’s composed of 49 photographs I digitally altered through cropping, rotation, and color manipulation, and then arranged into a patchwork of alternating green and blue stripes.
I took many of the photographs via KAP, which stands for kite aerial photography. Using kites and balloons, I photographed the school as it was built from the ground up, over a two year period. I mixed these photographs with found ones, of Marshall Island navigation charts from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and kite aerial self-portraits that I found online. When viewed together, the photos are meaningful points – far away landscapes, familiar views, tactile lines, abstract color fields – within which viewers can locate themselves.
Collection of the NYC Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools.
Photo: Etienne Frossard
Photo: Etienne Frossard
Photo: Etienne Frossard
Photo: Etienne Frossard