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Gramática parda [2010]

Monday, May 10, 2010

Posted by Joe Merrell at 9:42 AM
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Gramática parda

Thoreau wrote of “this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society.” Is it possible that a society as a whole might stay on better terms with nature, and not simply by being foragers? Thoreau replies: “The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knowledge, Gramatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.” The grammar not only of language, but of culture and civilization itself, is of the same order as this mossy little forest creek, this desert cobble. [Gary Snyder - The Practice of the Wild]

Collaborators

Joe Merrell, lead artist
Paul McLean
Stephanie Abramowicz
Shane Kennedy
Doyle Trankina


Inaugural Exhibition

September 25 - November 20, 2010

ANDLAB
600 Moulton Avenue, #303
Los Angeles, CA 90031

CATALOG

About

This blog exists as both a record and resource to the artists participating in the first iteration of the Gramática parda project.

Note from Joe Merrell: Special thanks to Paul McLean for his energy and advice at the outset - important and appreciated!

Press

  • Inaugural Exhibition Catalog
  • Press Release (July 2010)
  • E Card #1
  • E Card #2
  • E Card #3
  • High Res Still #1
  • High Res Still #2
  • High Res Still #3