Anything,Anywhere,Anytime
Joe Ostraff
Collage, sticker art, QR codes w/ video
16”x16”
I am of the west, born and raised in Southern California, attending university in Utah and Washington State, and now residing in Utah. Both my parents were also born and raised here with their people mostly from California and Wyoming. I have walked land in all eleven states that make-up this territory and I am familiar with many of the landmarks within this expansive geography. When I am anywhere in this region, I pretty much know where I am and feel at home. But my people are not the first to feel this way in this land and the overlapping histories of first caretakers and Europeans is full of conflict, marking a radical transition in how land is defined and understood.
Back in the early 60’s a Washington bureaucrat coined the phrase “Lands of many uses-and many users.” An abbreviated version of that catchy phrase, “Land of many uses” can be seen on signs marking federal lands across the Western United States. I have come to the realization that I too am one of those users. This project is a capsule of my time and place in the American West. The title, Anything, Anywhere, Anytime Is intended to reference the current trend that the West is now a land of resources, recreation, and photo-ops. This vast geography has been deemed a “void” in need of human definition, it has had a grid laid over it, converting it into a “place”, with many uses, always in demand and public ready.
This project is composed of nine 4” triangular stickers that reference a yield sign. It is intended to be extremely flexible to the exhibition space and can be installed on any object, wall, or floor, preferably in some sort of cluster together. In addition to the nine stickers, there will be a bowl full of smaller sticker singlets for those visiting the show to take home with them.
Each yield sign has been extracted from collages made while traveling throughout the Western United States. In the center of each yielding shape is a QR code that takes the viewer to nine thirty-second video sequences with a split image of two segments, one documenting places of personal significance that I consider sublime and the other segment being images of locations with a human footprint. Found in the description of each sequence are the names and geographic coordinates.
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Joe Ostraff
Collage, sticker art, QR codes w/ video
16”x16”
I am of the west, born and raised in Southern California, attending university in Utah and Washington State, and now residing in Utah. Both my parents were also born and raised here with their people mostly from California and Wyoming. I have walked land in all eleven states that make-up this territory and I am familiar with many of the landmarks within this expansive geography. When I am anywhere in this region, I pretty much know where I am and feel at home. But my people are not the first to feel this way in this land and the overlapping histories of first caretakers and Europeans is full of conflict, marking a radical transition in how land is defined and understood.
Back in the early 60’s a Washington bureaucrat coined the phrase “Lands of many uses-and many users.” An abbreviated version of that catchy phrase, “Land of many uses” can be seen on signs marking federal lands across the Western United States. I have come to the realization that I too am one of those users. This project is a capsule of my time and place in the American West. The title, Anything, Anywhere, Anytime Is intended to reference the current trend that the West is now a land of resources, recreation, and photo-ops. This vast geography has been deemed a “void” in need of human definition, it has had a grid laid over it, converting it into a “place”, with many uses, always in demand and public ready.
This project is composed of nine 4” triangular stickers that reference a yield sign. It is intended to be extremely flexible to the exhibition space and can be installed on any object, wall, or floor, preferably in some sort of cluster together. In addition to the nine stickers, there will be a bowl full of smaller sticker singlets for those visiting the show to take home with them.
Each yield sign has been extracted from collages made while traveling throughout the Western United States. In the center of each yielding shape is a QR code that takes the viewer to nine thirty-second video sequences with a split image of two segments, one documenting places of personal significance that I consider sublime and the other segment being images of locations with a human footprint. Found in the description of each sequence are the names and geographic coordinates.
**Inquire if Interested in Purchase
Joe Ostraff
Collage, sticker art, QR codes w/ video
16”x16”
I am of the west, born and raised in Southern California, attending university in Utah and Washington State, and now residing in Utah. Both my parents were also born and raised here with their people mostly from California and Wyoming. I have walked land in all eleven states that make-up this territory and I am familiar with many of the landmarks within this expansive geography. When I am anywhere in this region, I pretty much know where I am and feel at home. But my people are not the first to feel this way in this land and the overlapping histories of first caretakers and Europeans is full of conflict, marking a radical transition in how land is defined and understood.
Back in the early 60’s a Washington bureaucrat coined the phrase “Lands of many uses-and many users.” An abbreviated version of that catchy phrase, “Land of many uses” can be seen on signs marking federal lands across the Western United States. I have come to the realization that I too am one of those users. This project is a capsule of my time and place in the American West. The title, Anything, Anywhere, Anytime Is intended to reference the current trend that the West is now a land of resources, recreation, and photo-ops. This vast geography has been deemed a “void” in need of human definition, it has had a grid laid over it, converting it into a “place”, with many uses, always in demand and public ready.
This project is composed of nine 4” triangular stickers that reference a yield sign. It is intended to be extremely flexible to the exhibition space and can be installed on any object, wall, or floor, preferably in some sort of cluster together. In addition to the nine stickers, there will be a bowl full of smaller sticker singlets for those visiting the show to take home with them.
Each yield sign has been extracted from collages made while traveling throughout the Western United States. In the center of each yielding shape is a QR code that takes the viewer to nine thirty-second video sequences with a split image of two segments, one documenting places of personal significance that I consider sublime and the other segment being images of locations with a human footprint. Found in the description of each sequence are the names and geographic coordinates.
**Inquire if Interested in Purchase