Heaven and Earth 1: 2009 Heaven and Earth 2: 2010 Heaven and Earth 3: 2011 Heaven and Earth 4: 2012 Heaven and Earth 5: 2013 Printable Maps (pdf format): letter size: 8 1/2" x 11" tabloid size: 11" x 17" original size: 17.5" x 14" Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs 4CULTURE Goalzero electronics123.com contact David Francis or Ray Freeman to help support this year's show and artists.		Site 11: David Francis Seattle, Washington http://www.cocaseattle.org "A Square Meter of Glacial Clay" Gathering glacial clay from a bed near Four-Mile rock at Magnolia Bluffs (about three miles south of present location), I constructed a shallow container to hold the matrix and present it for close inspection. Initially, the clay-silt mix was installed with enough water to make it wet or soupy, although it will dry very rapidly in its sunny location to form a much harder surface that bears the trace of any interaction. Over the course of the exhibition, the material alternately gets wet in rain (assuming there is any; I may have to intervene) and then dries out, each time re-working itself through a natural process that users actively shape by placing handprints, finger holes, initials, etc. As an added component, I added a few seeds to see if any colonizing might occur by mid-August. To reflect the dynamic changes in the environment, I seek to create experimental artworks that capture or forecast similar shifts in contemporary art through new placements in public areas, new opportunities for user interaction, and new interpretations of the old Cartesian split between Nature and Humanity (see especially Jean-Francois Lyotard’s The Inhuman and Donna Haraway’s Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature). I view these formerly oppositional concepts as deeply connected and try to express the nuances of the connection in my experiments and interventions in urban forests like Carkeek.