anjabache  Projects 

LANDSCAPE – LINES OF MEMORIES FRAGMENT 1 – NY, USA, 2017

Video Presented at Alfred Museum of Ceramic Art – Prehistorical Shaping of the Local Landscape

 

A meditation on time and the storytelling of history, shaped through personal interpretation.
With a curiosity toward memories, discoveries, and the fragments of artifacts,
I explore the layers of history—local, national, and personal—each one offering its own narrative.

In this exploration, I dig into the past of the United States, the history of the village of Alfred, and
my own journey through this place in 2017.

As an artist, I do not seek to be a historian or an archaeologist,
but to weave my own understanding of the past into a fabric of meaning—
a personal reflection on the landscape of memory and time.

Here, I present stills from the video, which can be experienced in full through the link below.

Watch the full video here. 

Landscape"—Fragment 1, a video at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, tracing memories and history in shifting landscapes

Landscape"—Fragment 1, a video at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, tracing memories and history in shifting landscapes - 1

Landscape"—Fragment 1, a video at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, tracing memories and history in shifting landscapes - 1A

Landscape"—Fragment 1, a video at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, tracing memories and history in shifting landscapes - 1B

Landscape"—Fragment 1, a video at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, tracing memories and history in shifting landscapes - 1C

Stills from the video presented at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum NY.

LINES OF MEMORIES – FRAGMENT 1 – LANDSCAPE – PRESENTED AT ALFRED CERAMIC ARTMUSEUM NY USA 2017


ABSTRACT

In spring 2017 I was invited for a Theodore Randall international Chair at New York State College of Ceramic Art, School of Art and Design, Alfred University.
I here had to do Art research /an art project – as well teaching a Junior 2 System class, supervise and give critique of grad Students and attend meetings.
This page is presenting my art project LINES OF MEMORIES – Re imaging time-Fragment 1 out of 5 fragments all together.

FRAGMENT ONE
The Greek-Roman natural philosopher Titus Lucretius, (c. 100 B.C. – c. 55 B.C.), once wrote in his piece “ON nature of Things”;

And part of the soil is called to wash away
In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks.
Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows
Is restored to earth. And since she surely is
The womb of all things and their common grave,
Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again

The earth is forced into transformations, that each year make its marks into its surface,
and the scenery with its smells, its sounds, hap-tic and visual representation met the first primitive people,
the Seneca American Indians, The new Settlers,
the villager and the visiting students as well as faculty of the universities today as well as me just passing by.
We are all marked by that. The nature, landscape and its transformation.

BACKGROUND

It was a project in its origin based on local history, topology, archaeology and architecture presented at the opening as a guided tour containing 5 fragments:.
Fragment 1;  “Landscape a video presented at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, NY, USA
Fragment 2; “Lines” Permanent outdoor concrete-earth installation
Fragment 3; “Memory” wood-ceramic Installation at New York State College of Ceramic art, School of Art and Design, Alfred University
Fragment 4; “Time” ceramic Installation at  New York State College of Ceramic art, School of Art and Design, Alfred University
Fragment 5; “The End” out-door earth-ceramic Installation.

A fragment is defined as;
a part broken off or detached from
A fragment; an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part
A fragment; an odd piece, bit, or scrap.

ALFRED, CERAMIC ART MUSEUM,  NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF CERAMIC ARTS,  NY, USA
PHOTOS ANJA ,  CATALOG AND ARTICLES, 

SUPPORTED BY NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF CERAMIC ARTS
INVITED FOR AN INTERNATIONAL THEODORE RANDALL CHAIR
VIDEO AND SOUND; ANJA BACHE
MUSIC;  BLACK SUN RISING BY PARVUS DECRETE TRINITY