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Diane Fellows
“The Preoccupations of Lee H.” family portraits process paintings; "Toponarratives- Living Among Rivers", process film.
Lee and Werner,
Berlin, circa 1938
(Acrylic on Canvas, 72" x 40", created 2014-in progress)
Lee at 24. The Wedding. circa 1955
(Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 20" 2014)
Portraits, Luxembourg, circa 1964
Allan and Diane (Acrylic on Canvas, 20" x 24", created 2013)
TopoNarratives - Living Among Rivers
Filmed in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin; Miami, Oklahoma;
process film in-progress
Continuing work: TopoNarratives - Living Among Rivers”, a work in progress, situates narratives within varying size cells of the whole filmic frame. I explore visual and narrative means to connect events by dislocating the viewer from a continuous viewing / reading.
“TopoNarratives - Living Among Rivers" includes elements of the first film, "TopoNarratives 1-4: LottumStraße" (2008), filmed in Berlin, Germany, where streets, buildings, and graffiti are juxtaposed against an interpretation of stories told to me by my mother, a survivor of Berlin during WWII, as I travel through places she once lived. As reference, below is a link to the 2008 film.
"Living Among Rivers" includes the landscape of Miami, Oklahoma. In the 19th century, the indigenous Myaamia community were forcibly relocated from their homeland in eastern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and displaced to 480 square miles of unfamiliar land in Oklahoma. In 1983, Miami, Oklahoma, and its environs contained the largest environmental Superfund site contaminated with lead and zinc mine deposits. In the last twenty years, the area has been in remediation. The Myaamia’s story, framed by the control of physical ecologies and forced displacement, is part of the “TopoNarratives” larger discourse regarding orthodoxy’s political, cultural and environmental tenets affecting consecutive generations.
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Below vimeo link to the film "TopoNarratives 1-4: LottumStraße", 2008
process film in-progress
Continuing work: TopoNarratives - Living Among Rivers”, a work in progress, situates narratives within varying size cells of the whole filmic frame. I explore visual and narrative means to connect events by dislocating the viewer from a continuous viewing / reading.
“TopoNarratives - Living Among Rivers" includes elements of the first film, "TopoNarratives 1-4: LottumStraße" (2008), filmed in Berlin, Germany, where streets, buildings, and graffiti are juxtaposed against an interpretation of stories told to me by my mother, a survivor of Berlin during WWII, as I travel through places she once lived. As reference, below is a link to the 2008 film.
"Living Among Rivers" includes the landscape of Miami, Oklahoma. In the 19th century, the indigenous Myaamia community were forcibly relocated from their homeland in eastern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and displaced to 480 square miles of unfamiliar land in Oklahoma. In 1983, Miami, Oklahoma, and its environs contained the largest environmental Superfund site contaminated with lead and zinc mine deposits. In the last twenty years, the area has been in remediation. The Myaamia’s story, framed by the control of physical ecologies and forced displacement, is part of the “TopoNarratives” larger discourse regarding orthodoxy’s political, cultural and environmental tenets affecting consecutive generations.
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Below vimeo link to the film "TopoNarratives 1-4: LottumStraße", 2008
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