Heaven and Earth 1: 2009 Heaven and Earth 2: 2010 Heaven and Earth 3: 2011 Heaven and Earth 4: 2012 Printable Maps (pdf format): letter size: 8 1/2" x 11" tabloid size: 11" x 17" original size: 17.5" x 14" Participating Artists: Seattle: Julie Lindell Joe Reno Miguel Edwards Viewlands Group Peppé Brenda Scallon Alan Fulle Suze Woolf Cameron Mason & Lara McIntosh Josho Somine Rebecca Maxim Garry Golightly The Unearth Collective Bellevue and Sammamish: Fox Anthony Spears Suzanne Tidwell California: Judy Shintani Oregon: Lee Imonen Vancouver BC: Tiki Mulvihill Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs 4Culture Site Specific Supported by: QFC: Quality Food Centers University Bookstore Pacific Industrial Supply Pacific Topsoils, Inc. Green Bean Coffee House The Revere Group Jonathon Cluts contact David Francis or Ray Freeman to help support this year's show and artists.		Site 11: Josho Somine Seattle, Washington a shrine of fragile ambitions 2012 This is a new installation piece, proposed for the West edge of the model airplane field at Carkeek Park for the Heaven and Earth show. An old, dead, hollow tree trunk form, large enough for 1-2 people to enter, will be constructed out of recycled cardboard, fastened together with large copper staples. Stiff triangular tubes, formed from old boxes, become the structural modules that aggregate into the semblance of trunks and branches. Final dimensions are approximately 5-6' in diameter and 15-20' in height. (The piece is staked to the ground with rebar to prevent toppling in high winds.) With all labels turned to the inside, cardboard reverts to an almost natural material: soft, brown, sweet-smelling, and erosive. Water, wind, and weather will soften the lines and surfaces of the piece over its seasons outdoors. Branches will sag and perhaps fall off. The materiality becomes a rumination on human and natural structural production. Statement: I prefer to work with found and cast-off materials and sites, whether natural or post-industrial. Such things and places demand an active and improvisatory dialogue in the endeavors of construction and creation. Through exploratory processes, the materials lend themselves to structures and forms, which are then extended to the limits of decomposition. With luck, something about the nature of the human interaction with natural potentials, in all its hubris, reverence, or irony, is revealed. Bio: Josho identifies as a sculptor, although his work often extends into ecological and landscape design, building, and teaching. A native of northern California, he has had almost as much experience living and working in the woods as in the city, and tries to bring an acknowledgment and appreciation of both into his work. He received a BFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts in 2002, an MLA from the University of Washington in 2010, and has been active in the national permaculture network since 1997.