Andrea Geyer: We have talked about time, labour, performance, commitment to community, materials and the way culture runs through and within us as the artists who make it. Is there anything you would like to add?
Maria Hupfield: I want to return to this idea of a thing or object as an event that unfolds over time. I am reminded of a rock. Compared to the short life of a human, a rock is still, static, lifeless. But in the bigger picture of creation even a rock evolves over time. It is shaped and formed as it moves through its environment. Certain rocks are ancient and full of wisdom. Nothing is every really fixed, not even a rock. If perception of change can shift, so too does awareness. I think this is what I appreciate about New York – the city changes so fast and so often, nobody can keep their eyes closed for long.
from ‘Firecrackers of Connectivity: The Travel of Things in Lived Time, a conversation between Andrea Geyer and Maria Hupfield. New York, May 2017’, in ‘Maria Hupfield: The One Who Keeps on Giving/Celle Qui Continue De Donner (The Power Plant, Toronto: 2017), p. 107.
