Micah and Whitney Stansell:
the water and the blood
Micah and Whitney Stansell's work explores ideas of family history, narrative traditions,
and binary relationships that pull from contemporary issues influenced and informed by environment
and location. Much of the Stansell's interest in narrative stems from the rich Southern tradition
of storytelling. The genesis of the water and the blood is a family story, and that story
makes up the core narrative event, but most of the elements surrounding this core event have been
imagined, or pieced together from remembrances of hearing the story told. The work is as much about
the idea of remembering, and imagining, and seeing as it is about any single event. The work possesses
a level of openness to the narrative that allows the viewer to access the work in their own way,
and bring their own context to bear on the reading of the intentionally spare narrative.
the water and the blood was created as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Art
of Georgia's Working Artist Project 2010-2011. The project was funded by the Charles Loridans
Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A gallery installation of the project is on view at MOCA GA through December 3, 2011.
artist website: www.micahstansell.com
artist website: www.whitneystansell.com
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