salina township series, volume 1, 2004 - 2010
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The first volume of work documenting Salina Township in Kankakee County.TRANSCRIPT
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The Salina Township Series
Volume 1
2004—2010
- C. Shoup
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“I grew up in Salina Township, Illinois. Specifically in Bonfield,
a small town surrounded by farm fields. As a boy I was drawn
to the exploration and study of the outlying wood patches,
ditches, creeks and the town’s abandoned stone quarries (all
while being a disinterested learner inside the grade school’s
brick walls). After high school I grew wings and flew to
Chicago. There I studied art and cultural diversity. Seven
years later I returned to Salina Township, and what did I find?
“Nothing was as I left it. I had new eyes. I grabbed my
camera and began to capture important organic structures
and the terribly important colors strewn everywhere in my
native landscape, and I pursued different ways of presenting
what I found.
“This series contains my first six years worth of exploration as
an ecologist and artist.”
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Bonfield stone quarries; Salina Township road;
2nd bridge ditch; Horse Creek
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2004
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Corn #1
16” x 24” (2004)
Collection of Dave and Sue St. Germaine
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2004
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Corn #2
16” x 24” (2004)
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2004
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Corn #3
16” x 24” (2004)
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2004
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Salina Storybook
16” x 36” (2004)
Collection of Todd and Jackie Snedecor
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2004
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Seven Lines of Salina Township
16” x 36” (2004)
Collection of Jacob Joubert
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2004
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Ode to my Father
16” x 36” (2004)
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2005
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Guthrie’s Vision—skewed
8” x 12” (2005)
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2005
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In the absence of sound; sound
16” x 28” (2005)
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2006
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Stones
16” x 24” (2006)
Collection of John Shoup
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2006
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Approaching Bridge Out
Left panel of 3 “book frames” stitched together with leather cord. 10” x 22” (2006)
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2006
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Bridge Out
Middle panel of 3 “book frames” stitched together with leather cord. 10” x 22” (2006)
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2006
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Burnt House
Right panel of 3 “book frames” stitched together with leather cord. 10” x 22” (2006)
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Diary of Salina Township; 11.8.2006 “I took a day off work (from teaching
inner city 5th graders) and traveled with my camera bag, coffee, some
apples and 12 roles of film to Salina Township. My intention was to drive
the square miles and photograph all day. The earliest photo I took is
mounted in the upper left corner of the frame.
“I wandered about the township for the rest of the morning, the
afternoon and the evening. I would stop, explore and photograph. It was
a fantastic day.
“My very last photo at dusk is in the frame’s lower right corner.
“One photographic part at a time was selected (from over 250 choices)
and cut for a slide mount. Each mount was riveted with four grommets. I
did this between January and February, 2007. In March I designed the
frame. In April I sewed 112 slides mount into place. I finished in May. All
together it took over 120 hours. It was a response to Amanda questioning
me if I was ever going to create something I couldn’t finish in one night.”
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Diary of Salina Township; 11.8.2006
27” x 42”
(109) 35mm photographs; hand-colored slide mounts; metal grommets; waxed cotton string;
Salina Township sand, grass seeds, Native American arrowhead; masonite; solid oak frame
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2009
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Purple Asters, Rock Pile
16” x 24” (2009)
Collection of Vickie Romein
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2009
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Sun Spots; Bridge
16” x 24” (2009)
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“This painting is about a memory.
“Several of us would tramp about the wet, marshy sumps
where the woods held water, searching for things that
would not bite or sting us. At the height of summer, the
heat would concentrate in the brackish molecular stew.
Decayed leaves would disintegrated with every step,
sending upward mushroom plumes of particles that turned
the water brown while our feet sank into the silt.
“I had a habit of looking through the canopy to take quick
glances at the sun, because I liked the way effervescent
sunspots would appear when my salty eyebrow sweat
mixed with my vision.”
2010
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Sun Spots; Swamp Oak; Cattails
24” x 24” (2010)
Oil and acrylic on oak panel; recycled kitchen countertop sample tabs; walnut frame
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Rock Pile/Purple Asters
24” x 24” (2010)
Available through www.gallery180.com
2010
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View from a Grain Bin
24” x 24” (2010)
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2nd Bridge Ditch
24” x 24” (2010)
2010
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Horse Creek, November
24” x 24” (2010)
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2010
Fields
24” x 24” (2010)
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Bonfield Stone Quarries
24” x 24” (2010)