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...Trujillo Escare??o, TUSTIN, CALIF...
Already, the Carpenter Center’s fourth floor studio is full of transplants. Delicate flowering branches are arranged on tables. Rohny Escare??o ’04-’06 uses pushpins to affix mushrooms to the studio’s hematite walls. (Stopforth jokes, “He hopes they will grow there.”) On another table sit the products of the class’ first project: balls of clay into which the class members molded blades of grass, berries, and pinecones from the site...
Meanwhile, Escare??o, who is using video to document the site, reviews the day’s footage on an LCD screen. The camera follows a trail of red-orange fungus that streaks across his tree. He is working in what he calls “the cemetery of the cemetery”—where gardeners dispose of organic waste. “I almost got hit today,” he says of the rain of tree branches over the area...
...Escare??o’s project, which examines these dead objects, also makes reference to the cemetery. “The grave itself is an absence. It’s there but the person is no longer,” he explains. “I’m going to keep playing with this absence idea, this disjointed feeling…I like the idea of the grave itself, this marker,” he says as he fast-forwards through a scene...
...students. Marotta, who is doing a senior drawing thesis, noted that “everything I do in the department is taking place on paper. I took this class so I could do site-specific installation. It’s a nice change of pace.” Escare??o says he appreciates the fact that students can “play to their strengths.” The course is not, unlike the majority of VES offerings, oriented around a reading-period final project. Escare??o calls it a “wholly unique experience; it?...
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