![]() ![]() Americans typically don't have to live daily with thousand-year structures or billion-year geology. ![]() With her background as an archivist and a museum technician in the Four Corners area of the southwest, Olsen knows what this landscape can tell us. To collect was not only to preserve, but also to alter through the addition of new meanings-just as the books on my shelf were becoming an autobiography of myself that would also be dispersed someday-meanings which were individual, personal and destined to fade away without a trace. She imagines a discipline that studies captured silences, but the empty vessels hold the most meaning for the collector: In "The Curation of Silence," Olsen takes this notion to its extreme. ![]() The fragments don't cohere to make a single object, but like lipid-coated pot sherds, baskets, granaries and stacked stones, they provide clues for us to extract truths about our vanished selves. ![]() Some of the pieces run barely a page or two one is more than half footnotes. Relationships-if they can be found in these stories-are broken, in the process of breaking or being partially assembled from the materials found on site. Erica Olsen's RECAPTURE & Other Stories is more than a collection of "other stories " it's a curation of artifacts around themes of loss, searching and memory. ![]()
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