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MFA Thesis Exhibition: Desire Lines
A reception will be held on Saturday, February 15, from 5–7 PM at Urban Arts Space.The paths carved into the center of Ohio State's campus are indicators of generations of students collaborating together through collective logic in a journey from one place to the next. Each step away from the paths decided for us by urban planning and civil engineering shows a desire—spoken or not—for expression, which emerges and takes shape as lines of connection. Desire lines bridge a gap between people, places, things, and mythologies and illustrate another way to get closer.A physical manifestation of choice and rebellion, desire lines remind us of the way we both shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Like a low animal trail worn through undergrowth by generations of herds, packs, and individuals, our feet guide those who follow behind. Half-frozen footprints, trodden grass, and trails of breadcrumbs act as the mark-making upon our environment. We choose our own paths despite those already existing around us. Desire lines not only symbolize this collective instinct toward authenticity, but also the way that we question relationships of power between humans and between species.Desire lines wake us to the uncanny reminder of how deeply hardwired our bodies are to the arbitrary systems around us. They reveal that there can be a danger in humans establishing ourselves on some separate higher plane. That danger is the risk that the pavement of institutional authority will co-opt and eliminate ever-present possibilities. Have we lost the ability to hear past the pavement in a bid for stability? Can you hear the geologic shudders that cry up and out to ancestral stars whose histories are choked out by the fluorescent glow of progress? Deer hooves clacking musically on concrete, a squirrel trapezing on an electric wire, a coyote raiding the dairy section of an Aldi in Chicago. There was a threshold, a rubicon, and we've passed it... onto a plane convinced of its own stability.Reaching past the boundaries of this plane, fledgling cracks appear and unsettle paved paths, spilling forth the weedy, dusty clutter of realities deemed out of sync with the one stable plane. That weedy dustiness, evidence of that tacit symbiosis between walker and walked on, signals divergent wants and wills that breach the seas, soar brilliantly across the night sky, and carve through historic sediment cloaking dormant knowns.Each errant step from the designated path is a rejection of structures placed upon us in the name of our supposed desires. This is how we're going to do this thing, keep moving. Not progressing merely forward but curving away.Participating Artists: Mandy Darrington, Annelise Duque, William Evans, Breana Hendricks, Josiah Jamison, Matty Machado, Andrew Mehall, Zaza Naylor, Ivan David Ng, Julian Robbins, Isabella Saraceni, Alex Trippe, James Waite
Urban Arts Space
OSU ASC Drupal 8
ascwebservices@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
2025-02-15 17:00:00
2025-02-15 19:00:00
MFA Thesis Exhibition: Desire Lines
A reception will be held on Saturday, February 15, from 5–7 PM at Urban Arts Space.The paths carved into the center of Ohio State's campus are indicators of generations of students collaborating together through collective logic in a journey from one place to the next. Each step away from the paths decided for us by urban planning and civil engineering shows a desire—spoken or not—for expression, which emerges and takes shape as lines of connection. Desire lines bridge a gap between people, places, things, and mythologies and illustrate another way to get closer.A physical manifestation of choice and rebellion, desire lines remind us of the way we both shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Like a low animal trail worn through undergrowth by generations of herds, packs, and individuals, our feet guide those who follow behind. Half-frozen footprints, trodden grass, and trails of breadcrumbs act as the mark-making upon our environment. We choose our own paths despite those already existing around us. Desire lines not only symbolize this collective instinct toward authenticity, but also the way that we question relationships of power between humans and between species.Desire lines wake us to the uncanny reminder of how deeply hardwired our bodies are to the arbitrary systems around us. They reveal that there can be a danger in humans establishing ourselves on some separate higher plane. That danger is the risk that the pavement of institutional authority will co-opt and eliminate ever-present possibilities. Have we lost the ability to hear past the pavement in a bid for stability? Can you hear the geologic shudders that cry up and out to ancestral stars whose histories are choked out by the fluorescent glow of progress? Deer hooves clacking musically on concrete, a squirrel trapezing on an electric wire, a coyote raiding the dairy section of an Aldi in Chicago. There was a threshold, a rubicon, and we've passed it... onto a plane convinced of its own stability.Reaching past the boundaries of this plane, fledgling cracks appear and unsettle paved paths, spilling forth the weedy, dusty clutter of realities deemed out of sync with the one stable plane. That weedy dustiness, evidence of that tacit symbiosis between walker and walked on, signals divergent wants and wills that breach the seas, soar brilliantly across the night sky, and carve through historic sediment cloaking dormant knowns.Each errant step from the designated path is a rejection of structures placed upon us in the name of our supposed desires. This is how we're going to do this thing, keep moving. Not progressing merely forward but curving away.Participating Artists: Mandy Darrington, Annelise Duque, William Evans, Breana Hendricks, Josiah Jamison, Matty Machado, Andrew Mehall, Zaza Naylor, Ivan David Ng, Julian Robbins, Isabella Saraceni, Alex Trippe, James Waite
Urban Arts Space
OSU ASC Drupal 8
ascwebservices@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
Date Range
2025-02-11 11:00:00
2025-03-15 18:00:00
MFA Thesis Exhibition: Desire Lines
A reception will be held on Saturday, February 15, from 5–7 PM at Urban Arts Space.The paths carved into the center of Ohio State's campus are indicators of generations of students collaborating together through collective logic in a journey from one place to the next. Each step away from the paths decided for us by urban planning and civil engineering shows a desire—spoken or not—for expression, which emerges and takes shape as lines of connection. Desire lines bridge a gap between people, places, things, and mythologies and illustrate another way to get closer.A physical manifestation of choice and rebellion, desire lines remind us of the way we both shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Like a low animal trail worn through undergrowth by generations of herds, packs, and individuals, our feet guide those who follow behind. Half-frozen footprints, trodden grass, and trails of breadcrumbs act as the mark-making upon our environment. We choose our own paths despite those already existing around us. Desire lines not only symbolize this collective instinct toward authenticity, but also the way that we question relationships of power between humans and between species.Desire lines wake us to the uncanny reminder of how deeply hardwired our bodies are to the arbitrary systems around us. They reveal that there can be a danger in humans establishing ourselves on some separate higher plane. That danger is the risk that the pavement of institutional authority will co-opt and eliminate ever-present possibilities. Have we lost the ability to hear past the pavement in a bid for stability? Can you hear the geologic shudders that cry up and out to ancestral stars whose histories are choked out by the fluorescent glow of progress? Deer hooves clacking musically on concrete, a squirrel trapezing on an electric wire, a coyote raiding the dairy section of an Aldi in Chicago. There was a threshold, a rubicon, and we've passed it... onto a plane convinced of its own stability.Reaching past the boundaries of this plane, fledgling cracks appear and unsettle paved paths, spilling forth the weedy, dusty clutter of realities deemed out of sync with the one stable plane. That weedy dustiness, evidence of that tacit symbiosis between walker and walked on, signals divergent wants and wills that breach the seas, soar brilliantly across the night sky, and carve through historic sediment cloaking dormant knowns.Each errant step from the designated path is a rejection of structures placed upon us in the name of our supposed desires. This is how we're going to do this thing, keep moving. Not progressing merely forward but curving away.Participating Artists: Mandy Darrington, Annelise Duque, William Evans, Breana Hendricks, Josiah Jamison, Matty Machado, Andrew Mehall, Zaza Naylor, Ivan David Ng, Julian Robbins, Isabella Saraceni, Alex Trippe, James Waite
Urban Arts Space
America/New_York
public
February 15, 2025
5:00PM
-
7:00PM
Urban Arts Space
Add to Calendar
2025-02-11 11:00:00
2025-03-15 17:00:00
MFA Thesis Exhibition: Desire Lines
A reception will be held on Saturday, February 15, from 5–7 PM at Urban Arts Space.The paths carved into the center of Ohio State's campus are indicators of generations of students collaborating together through collective logic in a journey from one place to the next. Each step away from the paths decided for us by urban planning and civil engineering shows a desire—spoken or not—for expression, which emerges and takes shape as lines of connection. Desire lines bridge a gap between people, places, things, and mythologies and illustrate another way to get closer.A physical manifestation of choice and rebellion, desire lines remind us of the way we both shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Like a low animal trail worn through undergrowth by generations of herds, packs, and individuals, our feet guide those who follow behind. Half-frozen footprints, trodden grass, and trails of breadcrumbs act as the mark-making upon our environment. We choose our own paths despite those already existing around us. Desire lines not only symbolize this collective instinct toward authenticity, but also the way that we question relationships of power between humans and between species.Desire lines wake us to the uncanny reminder of how deeply hardwired our bodies are to the arbitrary systems around us. They reveal that there can be a danger in humans establishing ourselves on some separate higher plane. That danger is the risk that the pavement of institutional authority will co-opt and eliminate ever-present possibilities. Have we lost the ability to hear past the pavement in a bid for stability? Can you hear the geologic shudders that cry up and out to ancestral stars whose histories are choked out by the fluorescent glow of progress? Deer hooves clacking musically on concrete, a squirrel trapezing on an electric wire, a coyote raiding the dairy section of an Aldi in Chicago. There was a threshold, a rubicon, and we've passed it... onto a plane convinced of its own stability.Reaching past the boundaries of this plane, fledgling cracks appear and unsettle paved paths, spilling forth the weedy, dusty clutter of realities deemed out of sync with the one stable plane. That weedy dustiness, evidence of that tacit symbiosis between walker and walked on, signals divergent wants and wills that breach the seas, soar brilliantly across the night sky, and carve through historic sediment cloaking dormant knowns.Each errant step from the designated path is a rejection of structures placed upon us in the name of our supposed desires. This is how we're going to do this thing, keep moving. Not progressing merely forward but curving away.Participating Artists: Mandy Darrington, Annelise Duque, William Evans, Breana Hendricks, Josiah Jamison, Matty Machado, Andrew Mehall, Zaza Naylor, Ivan David Ng, Julian Robbins, Isabella Saraceni, Alex Trippe, James Waite
Urban Arts Space
OSU ASC Drupal 8
ascwebservices@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
2025-02-15 17:00:00
2025-02-15 19:00:00
MFA Thesis Exhibition: Desire Lines
A reception will be held on Saturday, February 15, from 5–7 PM at Urban Arts Space.The paths carved into the center of Ohio State's campus are indicators of generations of students collaborating together through collective logic in a journey from one place to the next. Each step away from the paths decided for us by urban planning and civil engineering shows a desire—spoken or not—for expression, which emerges and takes shape as lines of connection. Desire lines bridge a gap between people, places, things, and mythologies and illustrate another way to get closer.A physical manifestation of choice and rebellion, desire lines remind us of the way we both shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Like a low animal trail worn through undergrowth by generations of herds, packs, and individuals, our feet guide those who follow behind. Half-frozen footprints, trodden grass, and trails of breadcrumbs act as the mark-making upon our environment. We choose our own paths despite those already existing around us. Desire lines not only symbolize this collective instinct toward authenticity, but also the way that we question relationships of power between humans and between species.Desire lines wake us to the uncanny reminder of how deeply hardwired our bodies are to the arbitrary systems around us. They reveal that there can be a danger in humans establishing ourselves on some separate higher plane. That danger is the risk that the pavement of institutional authority will co-opt and eliminate ever-present possibilities. Have we lost the ability to hear past the pavement in a bid for stability? Can you hear the geologic shudders that cry up and out to ancestral stars whose histories are choked out by the fluorescent glow of progress? Deer hooves clacking musically on concrete, a squirrel trapezing on an electric wire, a coyote raiding the dairy section of an Aldi in Chicago. There was a threshold, a rubicon, and we've passed it... onto a plane convinced of its own stability.Reaching past the boundaries of this plane, fledgling cracks appear and unsettle paved paths, spilling forth the weedy, dusty clutter of realities deemed out of sync with the one stable plane. That weedy dustiness, evidence of that tacit symbiosis between walker and walked on, signals divergent wants and wills that breach the seas, soar brilliantly across the night sky, and carve through historic sediment cloaking dormant knowns.Each errant step from the designated path is a rejection of structures placed upon us in the name of our supposed desires. This is how we're going to do this thing, keep moving. Not progressing merely forward but curving away.Participating Artists: Mandy Darrington, Annelise Duque, William Evans, Breana Hendricks, Josiah Jamison, Matty Machado, Andrew Mehall, Zaza Naylor, Ivan David Ng, Julian Robbins, Isabella Saraceni, Alex Trippe, James Waite
Urban Arts Space
OSU ASC Drupal 8
ascwebservices@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
Date Range
2025-02-15 17:00:00
2025-02-15 19:00:00
MFA Thesis Exhibition: Desire Lines
A reception will be held on Saturday, February 15, from 5–7 PM at Urban Arts Space.The paths carved into the center of Ohio State's campus are indicators of generations of students collaborating together through collective logic in a journey from one place to the next. Each step away from the paths decided for us by urban planning and civil engineering shows a desire—spoken or not—for expression, which emerges and takes shape as lines of connection. Desire lines bridge a gap between people, places, things, and mythologies and illustrate another way to get closer.A physical manifestation of choice and rebellion, desire lines remind us of the way we both shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Like a low animal trail worn through undergrowth by generations of herds, packs, and individuals, our feet guide those who follow behind. Half-frozen footprints, trodden grass, and trails of breadcrumbs act as the mark-making upon our environment. We choose our own paths despite those already existing around us. Desire lines not only symbolize this collective instinct toward authenticity, but also the way that we question relationships of power between humans and between species.Desire lines wake us to the uncanny reminder of how deeply hardwired our bodies are to the arbitrary systems around us. They reveal that there can be a danger in humans establishing ourselves on some separate higher plane. That danger is the risk that the pavement of institutional authority will co-opt and eliminate ever-present possibilities. Have we lost the ability to hear past the pavement in a bid for stability? Can you hear the geologic shudders that cry up and out to ancestral stars whose histories are choked out by the fluorescent glow of progress? Deer hooves clacking musically on concrete, a squirrel trapezing on an electric wire, a coyote raiding the dairy section of an Aldi in Chicago. There was a threshold, a rubicon, and we've passed it... onto a plane convinced of its own stability.Reaching past the boundaries of this plane, fledgling cracks appear and unsettle paved paths, spilling forth the weedy, dusty clutter of realities deemed out of sync with the one stable plane. That weedy dustiness, evidence of that tacit symbiosis between walker and walked on, signals divergent wants and wills that breach the seas, soar brilliantly across the night sky, and carve through historic sediment cloaking dormant knowns.Each errant step from the designated path is a rejection of structures placed upon us in the name of our supposed desires. This is how we're going to do this thing, keep moving. Not progressing merely forward but curving away.Participating Artists: Mandy Darrington, Annelise Duque, William Evans, Breana Hendricks, Josiah Jamison, Matty Machado, Andrew Mehall, Zaza Naylor, Ivan David Ng, Julian Robbins, Isabella Saraceni, Alex Trippe, James Waite
Urban Arts Space
America/New_York
public
A reception will be held on Saturday, February 15, from 5–7 PM at Urban Arts Space.
The paths carved into the center of Ohio State's campus are indicators of generations of students collaborating together through collective logic in a journey from one place to the next. Each step away from the paths decided for us by urban planning and civil engineering shows a desire—spoken or not—for expression, which emerges and takes shape as lines of connection. Desire lines bridge a gap between people, places, things, and mythologies and illustrate another way to get closer.
A physical manifestation of choice and rebellion, desire lines remind us of the way we both shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Like a low animal trail worn through undergrowth by generations of herds, packs, and individuals, our feet guide those who follow behind. Half-frozen footprints, trodden grass, and trails of breadcrumbs act as the mark-making upon our environment. We choose our own paths despite those already existing around us. Desire lines not only symbolize this collective instinct toward authenticity, but also the way that we question relationships of power between humans and between species.
Desire lines wake us to the uncanny reminder of how deeply hardwired our bodies are to the arbitrary systems around us. They reveal that there can be a danger in humans establishing ourselves on some separate higher plane. That danger is the risk that the pavement of institutional authority will co-opt and eliminate ever-present possibilities. Have we lost the ability to hear past the pavement in a bid for stability? Can you hear the geologic shudders that cry up and out to ancestral stars whose histories are choked out by the fluorescent glow of progress? Deer hooves clacking musically on concrete, a squirrel trapezing on an electric wire, a coyote raiding the dairy section of an Aldi in Chicago. There was a threshold, a rubicon, and we've passed it... onto a plane convinced of its own stability.
Reaching past the boundaries of this plane, fledgling cracks appear and unsettle paved paths, spilling forth the weedy, dusty clutter of realities deemed out of sync with the one stable plane. That weedy dustiness, evidence of that tacit symbiosis between walker and walked on, signals divergent wants and wills that breach the seas, soar brilliantly across the night sky, and carve through historic sediment cloaking dormant knowns.
Each errant step from the designated path is a rejection of structures placed upon us in the name of our supposed desires. This is how we're going to do this thing, keep moving. Not progressing merely forward but curving away.
Participating Artists: Mandy Darrington, Annelise Duque, William Evans, Breana Hendricks, Josiah Jamison, Matty Machado, Andrew Mehall, Zaza Naylor, Ivan David Ng, Julian Robbins, Isabella Saraceni, Alex Trippe, James Waite
