elephantine in the
anthropocene
media: printmaking & painting
location: turchin center for the visual arts, appalachian state university, boone, north carolina
year: 2018
This solo exhibition focused on the spatiotemporal chronology of human-elephant relationships in Asia and Africa. This exhibit re-used the life-sized elephants made for the From Bangkok to Boone exhibit that were made from mono-printed paper, stuffed with recycled documents, and sewn together. The floor of the gallery was covered in mono-printed paper ivory tusks with hand-written histories of elephant hunting from ethnographic and archival documents. Two alcoves in the galleries contained past and contemporary mono-printed weapons used to capture and hunt wild elephants. The walls of the gallery were painted orange and featured a timeline of human-elephant relationships across Asian and African countries, as well as maps of human-elephant conflict zones and conservation projects.