Rob Grad: The Rule of Progress Workshop 1
Schedule
Sat Feb 04 2023 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location
Prime Desert Woodland Preserve | Lancaster, CA
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Join Rob Grad, Prime Desert Woodland Preserve's first Artist in Residence for 2023, for a fun photography-based excursion into the preserve!Join Grad for his first workshop, where participants will walk the trails, scout points of interest, and photograph the environment using Instax cameras. Participants* will then assemble their photos into two collages, one that is community-based and an individual collage to take home!
Southern California native, Rob Grad, is known for his introspective, yet bold 3D collages, sculptures, writing, and music. His heavily layered visuals contrast photographic vignettes of natural and urban environments, with drawing, painting, and his words–an aesthetic largely shaped by his two decades living in Venice Beach, CA.
Grad’s approach to using Joshua Trees in his work is largely metaphorical. He references a story of Mormons naming the trees, where they felt the branches were reaching to heaven. This work was inspired by a poem Grad wrote about progress, and how it can’t be measured with a line on a graph. He writes, “it’s a flailing, fussy, slobbery glob.” In this image, Grad is posing the question, what actually is “progress?” What is the benefit? And what is the cost? Lines and shapes move in and around the branches, suggesting how close our relationship is with our environment, even at great distances apart. But it is only the tree that touches the ground and has the ability to find water for nourishment in the barren landscape. The idea of nourishment can also be seen as a metaphor here, for nourishing our desires and our thirst for a better life and a better tomorrow. Is that in fact, what we are creating? Can society as a whole actually learn and grow from its missteps?
*This workshop is recommended for those ages 12+.
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Where is it happening?
Prime Desert Woodland Preserve, 43201 35th St W,Lancaster,CA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
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