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Leather hat, Red rhinestones, Elm Park Mud

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This project documents and explores the artist's collections from Elm Park's Mere Ponds. The three-part exhibition will include separate shows for each 'department': fashion, toys and accessories, and sporting goods. Each department displays the original objects, still stiff with mud after drying in the sun on clotheslines in the artist’s park-based field station. Kate studies the objects using continuous line drawings, closely examining the rips, wrinkles, stray stings, and impressions left by the last user. She considers the garbage treasured art-making materials; however, these displayed objects have more significant stories as artifacts.

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Found shredded like this. Mud and marking original to the object.

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Leather Jacket Back

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Found Muddy, but intact

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Back

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Artist Kate Egnaczak uses her paddle board to meticulously collect trash and items left behind in Elm Park’s mere ponds. As experimental arthepological* fieldwork, her socially engaged practical work mirrors a researcher in the natural environment. She employs extraction and conducts arts-based research specific to the park ecosystem. She is interested in gathering, transforming, and reinterpreting the found artifacts to explore the behavior of humans in the public park environment. Mere Pond Lost and Found is a visual expedition searching for the lost stories of what she has found.

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* a term created by the artist for a personal field of study that she defines as public art at the intersection of anthropology and archeology, meaning work that explores origins of a species, our present-day cultures, and how humanity will survive into the future, applied by investigating material objects humans have left behind. Experimental archaeologists re-create objects or activities from the past to learn about ancient human capabilities.

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Help connect stories between the items left behind.

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Help connect stories between the items left behind.

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Interact with the exhibition to any degree that pleases you. Draw about what you see or think, write in whatever form moves you, and record a story or thought. You can directly comment on the objects in a larger community. Come back and comment on the stories of others.

Kate and her team will gather the crowd-sourced narratives and map the throughlines. This project will culminate as new sculptures that reimagine the objects from the park in a new context informed by your ideas.

See the section "How to Post" below to learn how to add your ideas.

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Watch this video to explore how you can add your ideas or story.