DEPENDENT
Letterpress print, 20”x15”, 2020
Edition of 50 with 3 special edition varie on handmade paper by Julia Goodman
Julia Goodman and Michael Hall's powerful letterpress print “Dependent” (2020), produced in collaboration with the master printers at Mullowney Printing, San Francisco in conjunction with Catharine Clark Gallery’s Spring 2020 exhibition “The Master Printer, the Artist, and the Publisher.” Goodman and Hall write that "we designed this print with the heft of the 2020 election on our minds. In addition to everything already at stake, this is our first year voting as parents. Looking ahead, we realized our son, Irving, will not be able to vote for president until 2040.”
Reclamation Video
Edition of 5 - each comes in a custom "bunker box" with mountable flashdrive and a photographic print with transparency. Available from Catharine Clark Gallery. cclarkgallery.com
Reclamation, 2009
Presented here is the a clip of the video component from the installation at the Headlands Center for the Arts in June 2009. The video was viewed from a bunker structure built into the project space giving the viewer a visceral vantage point to view the slow dissolution of the bunkers into the coastal landscape.
While in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, I became fascinated with the bunkers dotting the landscape of the Marin Headlands. The coastal defense bunkers remain in a dilapidated form today – resting military monoliths in the now public lands of the National Park Service. Facing the persistent Pacific Ocean, the bunkers are slowly giving way to erosion.
The video, “Reclamation” came out of an impulse to see that process through. As the video progresses, the bunkers slowly fade away and continue the bunker’s further dissolution into the landscape; highlighting their isolated and largely forgotten past.