HeyJaredWater Stories by Melissa McGill
I am an artist dedicated to engaging in change-making, impactful projects that engage local participation in unique, meaningful and creative water storytelling.
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Local Color and Cross-fertilizing (opens the original)
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The Whole Ocean Contained in a Single Drop (opens the original)
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I was just working on a few proposals that led me to delve into my flat files and sketchbooks that line a low shelf in my studio. I don’t share their contents often. But I was thinking about a line often attributed to Rumi — that the whole ocean is contained in a single drop of water. I want to share some of the intimate, small-scale moments with you. These works come from a need to express what I’m seeing in my mind’s eye, and being led to translate it into this dimension’s time and space. An a
Water, Wind, an Enormous Cat and a Blackbird (opens the original)
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Marea has come down from the laundry lines now, and I find myself taking a moment to reflect on the forces that shaped it. I’ve written here about my deep collaborations with the students who worked beside me under the bell tower at San Francesco della Vigna, about Marea’s small and mighty project team, and about the residents who folded Marea into their daily lives and sent me home with gifts I’ll keep forever. That collaboration was profound and visible. But Marea was equally shaped by forces
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