Participating Artists: at Carkeek Park: Anette Lusher April Lelia Thendara Kida Gee Chris Papa Barbara De Pirro Gabriel Brown Aaron Haba Brian Gerich Miguel Edwards By Hand Fiber Consortium Reginald Brooks Stephen Rock Zucker, Turner, Jacobson Peppé Julie Lindell Matt Babcock at Point Shilshole Beach: David Francis Dan Smith Sylwia Tur Eden Rivers Teresa Burrelsman Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: 4Culture Site Specific Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs QFC Potter Construction		Site C: Dan Smith Hickory, North Carolina I'm Merse/ReVerse 2011 I will leave from North Carolina and arrive in Seattle by the end of June, camping along the way. I will set up in the Salmon Bay, Puget Sound area where I will finalize plans for I’m Merse/ReVerse, the working title for my installation/performance. Although I have only seen images of your selected space, I think I would like to submerge myself physically and metaphorically into the Puget Sound. I am currently reading David R. Montgomery’s book King of Fish, The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon and will be representing the migrating salmon as an icon for my return to the West Coast. Based on my writings following the North West Passage to the Pacific, I will mark text and images into the coastal sands, beginning at low tide. Although these images will be documented through photography, high tide will eventually wash them away. At high tide I want to walk into the water to become fully submerged as an immersion metaphor. I am also considering changing costumes while entering and exiting the Sound. I was born in Seattle and have not been back since. My return is the final stage of a 25-year art-making endeavor which works well with your cycles of return narrative. The Hampton Roads of Virginia and the Boone, North Carolina geographies were the centers for my first two bodies of Extended Sites. Seattle is my new center. If selected for the COCA exhibition, I will interact with the Point Shilshole site as a metaphor for salmon migration which will be combined with my Nez Perce family heritage. Shishole is a Duwamish Indian word meaning "threading a needle" which I will integrate into a performance piece at the site. The departure and return of the salmon is also the final chapter of a personal travelogue entitled Dansmyth which will be incorporated in some way. Over time I will design 12 works related to the North West Experience.