exhibition progress, press, and making a case for Urbana Land Arts

CCarl paints

We have made good progress with the exhibition space and our minds are finding it hard not to think ahead to the possibilities of the Allman's space and site.  The exhibition is set for the 26-27th of august which coincides with Urbana's Sweet Corn Festival.  

The work on the exhibition space has also given way to the Urbana Land Arts, which is a studio that we hope to establish that will focus on blending environmental and cultural remediation with public art.  But that is a story for another day as we have plenty to keep us occupied for the next few weeks.  Thanks for everyone's support  so far; we will do good work.  

The SCAN and high definiton

Bryan returned to the Saline to record more footage, and this time we were able to wade much of the way; taking our time and looking at details.  The last time we took Bryan's camera out the Saline was moving very rapidly and we were capsized almost immediately; nothing so dramatic occurred this time.  The Saline was lazy, slow and low.  We picked through the Saline with our cameras for five hours or so; surprisingly very pleasant conditions; many birds, fish, mammals.  The low water revealed several shopping carts that were overlooked; we should make our way back soon.

Bryan continues to lend his time and skills to the project and has become a collaborator as he has made several trips from St. Louis to Urbana and  produced a video of the project for the creative fundraising site Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1203366116/allmans-boneyard-saline-adopt-a-cart
He has also agreed to produce the video content for the upcoming exhibition.  Thanks Bryan.

Conditions: Sunny and warm, but pleasant, not too buggy, green to clear water

Fauna: 3 owls, deer, heron, gold-calico-and common colored carp, bass, some type of pan fish- Redear? Bluegill?, several types of minnow or small fish.

Some things that begin to look like other things