1 00:00:03,420 --> 00:00:08,719 my name is Stacy Lynn wadell and I am an 2 00:00:06,569 --> 00:00:13,740 artist participating in the exhibition 3 00:00:08,719 --> 00:00:17,970 entitled area 919 it is a Diptic it's 4 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:21,840 it's a scene of a ship coming to shore 5 00:00:17,970 --> 00:00:25,080 and which is a metaphor really for a lot 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:28,039 of things but in my world that ship 7 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:33,120 coming to shore is the way that things 8 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:36,150 come into being ideas histories origins 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:40,530 all of those things and so in no place 10 00:00:36,150 --> 00:00:45,360 like I'm thinking about that Island 11 00:00:40,530 --> 00:00:49,250 being a place that is somewhat foreign 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:53,309 and otherworldly and the meeting of that 13 00:00:49,250 --> 00:00:58,019 space and the ship which has cargo of 14 00:00:53,309 --> 00:01:01,619 various kinds coming together is a kind 15 00:00:58,019 --> 00:01:04,559 of a space of tension between those two 16 00:01:01,619 --> 00:01:07,409 sites coming and arriving to a place 17 00:01:04,559 --> 00:01:12,149 that you don't know very much about and 18 00:01:07,409 --> 00:01:15,570 that place sort of what is it embody and 19 00:01:12,149 --> 00:01:16,859 so that tension between what we know and 20 00:01:15,570 --> 00:01:19,170 what we think and what we believe and 21 00:01:16,859 --> 00:01:24,179 who we are and who might become and what 22 00:01:19,170 --> 00:01:26,219 we might encounter it's really something 23 00:01:24,179 --> 00:01:29,670 that I'm thinking about all the time in 24 00:01:26,219 --> 00:01:31,920 terms of my work and ideas but just in 25 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:34,380 terms of being you know in terms of 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,420 existing as a person fab blue color 27 00:01:34,380 --> 00:01:40,109 you're wearing that fuse with son it's 28 00:01:36,420 --> 00:01:45,299 an elemental color its sky its water it 29 00:01:40,109 --> 00:01:47,280 also was sort of a formal decision in 30 00:01:45,299 --> 00:01:50,399 terms of formal elements and principles 31 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:53,850 of art and design because the work is 32 00:01:50,399 --> 00:01:55,770 mostly sepia-toned but it has an 33 00:01:53,850 --> 00:01:59,100 underscore of an orange much like these 34 00:01:55,770 --> 00:02:01,710 chairs so I thought why not bring in a 35 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:06,229 color that was its complement its it's 36 00:02:01,710 --> 00:02:06,229 sort of hue complement which is blue