Place is part of my work. Perhaps that’s what makes it rather autobiographical. Whether I am weaving rusted steel bands from a sawmill in Vermont or chaining boulders in Pennsylvania, wrapping cotton gauze on fungus wounds on the live oak trees in Florida, place influences what I do.
I do believe everything and everyone is connected. Voices Underground is a project that has given me an opportunity to connect with a lot of very generous people, the artists who have recorded with me. It also, of course, is a connection to land, and it is one without boundaries. I think that is one of the gifts that art gives us-- that ability to work without borders and to use that creative energy and to thrive on that fertile ground that the arts and artists and people of good will provide.
I prefer the making of the things to talking about them. I think because there (in the making) I am fully connected and fully at one with it. And talking about it, like now, is a bit distancing. So I hope you will just join in and, if you’re walking along where the tape is planted, you will enjoy the planting. If you are listening, you will just enjoy the listening and bring to it your own thoughts.
Thank you.
Patricia Goodrich Visual Artist/Poet. Michigan and Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Ms. Goodrich is the recipient of a Leeway Foundation WOO Award, Puffin Foundation Grant, and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grant. She has been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Santa Fe Arts Institute, Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo in U.S.A. and Europos Parkas, Lithuania. Collections include Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Nizhni Novgorad Museum.
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