PROJECT ABSTRACT
Mountain Strip will attempt to articulate humankind’s desire to take command over the earth alluding to conflicts with nature, politics and ourselves. Reflecting on our precarious relationship with our surroundings, the installation will combine landscape forms historically used in different creative mediums and carry them into the contemporary consciousness of the conflicted landscape.

PROJECT CONCEPT
Mountain Strip is an important and timely sculptural work -- a miniaturized landscape section representing the land and its iconic meaning. Blane De St. Croix will re-create a miniature landscape of a United States coal mine -- a mountain strip mine, simulating a devastating slice of the environment. These mines have taken on more meaning and unintended scrutiny as the nation and the world grapple with the ecological, social and political implications of such activities. To provide the viewers with a sense of being at the bottom of the mountain, this monumental miniature landscape sculpture will run the entire length of the outdoor gallery space towering above the exterior walls and dynamically cutting through the interior glass doors spilling into the indoor gallery The installation will exist as a permanent three-dimensional still for us to observe as a subliminal image and to experience as a moment between past and future. In addition, numerous detailed and extensive ink drawings in support of the project and its research will be on view.

Supporting Education Programs
Lecture/Panel/Discussion

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Located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Black & White Project Space is a non-profit art organization committed to production, presentation and promotion of innovative and audience-engaging site-specific installations otherwise in danger of under-representation.

As exhibition spaces and artists’ studios disappear due to the building boom that has replaced so much of the neighborhood's historic fabric, our mission is to preserve and further develop the creative environment by bringing socially conscious art to a wide audience and offering substantial resources to artists shaping contemporary visual culture in the field of site-specific installations.


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