McTernan
Germany
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↑it's september and the earth is standing up to the sun
the north pole will soon be as north as ever
its ice melt lake grips the listing mast
water stiffens and resists
tempted to run south
as birds beat the sky overheadunrest is over
north is as north doesa car is parked on an arctic beach waiting for the desert sands to come
sign on the windshield reads "REST HERE WEARY DESERT"you can tell when the sands arrive
because they dust car windows
from africa to arcticmigrant deserts idle
on molten sand arrested as glass on a fast thing
engine iced and mutedrestless planet wanders
future fossils witness
look so hard, sun goes down
look so hard sun comes up(a brief record of the world, written facing east)
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Elizabeth McTernan, Rest Here, Weary Desert
Since 2003, Elizabeth McTernan has been pursuing overland exploration in North America, Europe, Russia, and Central & Southeast Asia, processing it via actions, installation, drawing, lithography, sound, and storytelling. McTernan's trans-disciplinary work has been exhibited internationally since2005. Recent awards include the 2013 Danish International Visiting Artist grant, the 2012 Wassaic Project Education Fellowship, and a special project at the Karen Blixen Museum, 2013. In 2014, she is mounting solo exhibitions at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Ireland and at Gold + Beton in Cologne, as well as speaking at symposiums in Nida (LT), Reykjavik (IS), and Poznan (PL). She was a featured artist in the Autumn 2014 issue of Sleek Magazine and will be an artist in residence at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania in 2015. Elizabeth currently lives, works, and walks in Berlin.
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