Workshop, photo by Jason Fronczek
nection to them and then I start researching We have to collectively use all of the knowl- by, for example, an economist, would
them, and then I visually make images of them. edge that we all have and start to see things probably only reach a very specific audifrom the different perspectives. There’s not go- ence.
The connection with natural forms and ing to be this one solution or one person who Yeah! I’ve done projects with physicists where
we’ll talk around and around something and
nature, is it about your presence in these comes up with that solution.
we’ll be talking about the same thing, but we
spaces/with these things?
It usually is from an experience I’ve had. I All of these different people do convey just use really different languages to speak
went on a trip to the Galapagos Islands and ideas very differently. The language used about the same subject! There’s not a huge
difference between what I
every time that I take these trips, I’m usually
Rachel demonstrating the press, photo by Jason Fronczek
do in my studio and what an
with a bunch of people from Rollins—people
experimentalist does in their
who have PhDs—and they’ll fill me in on all of
lab. The difference is the
this stuff that’s happening over dinner or whatoutcome and the audience
ever. We end up talking a lot about these big
we’re intending.
issues like climate change or marine pollution,
and we’ll talk about them from our different
disciplines.
It’s like a continuing education. I’m interested
in seeing the world this way. I think that’s how
the world works. We’re never going to solve
climate change with just one set of people who
know just this exact set of information in their
field. We have to have politicians, economists,
citizens, environmentalists, and soccer moms.
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