ABOUT THE PROJECT: BUMBLEMOTH

BumbleMoth is a loose confederation of obsessions. It’s a site to www.quintanwikswo.com

I began this web project in the autumn of 2009 when I was beginning four months of artist-in-residency fellowships at Ragdale (Illinois), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Virginia), Ucross Foundation (Wyoming), and finally Haut de Fee in Serecourt (France).  This period of time felt significant: four months in a very artificial yet oddly primal environment…art monasticism. Creative semi-monosocialism.

As I temporarily left the familiar for the unknown, the blog was a way of laying stones into the wild paradise of this time. A footpath. A means of marking my direction.

As I travelled from site to site over the months, certain preoccupations began to circle me, and like winged things settled upon my fingers when I sat down to create an electrical broadcast known as blog.  They fluttered around me at the astounding number of cemeteries, battlefields, hospitals, colonialist ruins, pagan worship sites, burial mounds…

When preoccupations gather, they begin to share a fierce resonance.

My preoccupations are about liminality – a word that derives from limen, meaning threshold.

Liminality lives at threshold states, borderland places, transitions, in-betweenity.

The edges and the seams.

The thin places where we find ourselves neither here nor there, but certainly somewhere.

Bumble bees like sweetness. And moths like light. I gravitate towards the idea of interjecting sweetness and light in the spookiest of places.

BumbleMoth is loosely confederated in the transition-rich categories of BIRTH, BURIAL, BATTLE, and WORSHIP.