Marisa Jahn – “Snuggle Island”

Snuggle Island as imagined by Marisa Jahn, One of fifteen islands fabricated by Greg Sholette based on ideas proposed by invited collaborators, Mixed media (paper, sand, plastic, wire, resin), 2012

Dear Greg

Just think about it. All those islands out there, surrounded by water, each to themselves with a different identity, enduring time in the singular, so… alone. Sometimes those guys have bridges, connecting them to the mainland. This certainly helps diminish the loneliness. When those drawbridges have to go up to accommodate a passing ship, or when the bridge to an island has certain opening and closing times-the island is made all the more aware of its natural solitude and the tenuousness of relations. Snuggle Island is an island whose chief characteristic is its ability to snuggle up next to other islands. It understands that through this amicability they can both be better islands – together. It scoots around and finds a little cove or a little nook where it can get up close and burrow into the other. Sometimes Snuggle Island and its companions grow so close that they are said to grow into each other, and when it goes off to the next island, an indentation remains behind.

- Marisa Jahn

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