Pat Falco | A Graveyard in the Sun
“A description of the city as it is today should contain all of its past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
A Graveyard In the Sun is a mixed media installation exploring the conflicting interests of memory, reality, and desire on the concepts of home.
Pat Falco is an artist from Boston, Massachusetts. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work has been shown at The Luggage Store Gallery (SF), New Image Art (LA), SPACE Gallery (Portland ME), and the Louvre (Paris, France). His interest in highlighting and critiquing the absurdities of everyday life has recently shifted into the public realm, with a focus on Boston’s housing crisis. Through a faux-luxury development company Upward Living Associates, Inc., he has produced a series of installations critiquing housing policies and development in Boston and vying for alternatives on a path to housing justice.
He is the recent recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres) and an Artist-In-Residence for the City of Boston’s Housing Innovation Lab.
Lee Wormald | Time on Flores
“You return from lands equally distant and you can tell me only the thoughts that come to a man who sits on his doorstep at evening to enjoy the cool air. What is the use, then, of all your traveling?” Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.
I have been photographing on Flores since 2014. I have been thinking about the impression an island creates for its inhabitants. Roberto de Mesquita (1871-1923), a poet from Flores, expressed the notion of ‘Almas Cativas’ (captive souls). Almas cativas are "obscure and sorrowful things and people, prisoners of the geographical island and of the island inside every human, the same one which shapes every human.”
Lee Wormald lives in Stoughton Massachusetts. He received a BFA in Photography from Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2016.