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PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE
Corpus Christi, Texas, December 28, 2001 |
To mark the passing of the year, to consider questions of borders and liminality,
and to think about the intersections between public, land, and performance art,
members of P.P.P. created two poems, each fifteen by ten feet (the size of Henry
David Thoreau's ideal room) where the Corpus Christi Municipal Beach ends and the
Padre Island National Seashore begins on December 27th. The poems could not be
other than ephemeral, marking, and marked by, the passage of time (conversations
between the sand and sea). The day after, Patrick and Amy Carroll revisited
the poems to find each text had undergone "revision," displaying the tracks
of birds, crabs, and coyotes. Participants included: Joyce Purdy, Kit Purdy,
Katie Carroll, Donna Carroll, Patrick Carroll (junior and senior), Pat McGonigle,
Sylvia Carroll, Amy Carroll, Allison Senf, Joshua Harris, Lena Kirichuk.
Ana Mendieta serves as our obvious influence.
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