CONSUMPTION is a multi media interactive environment consisting of screenprinted Flags, Give-Away art works, and sound. The installation examines how landscape (actual, political, social, visual, representational, or nonrepresentational) and culture shapes a persons' artistic viewpoint.The Give-Away refers to a traditional honor dance performed at Native American pow-wows or social gatherings where money or gifts are presented to visitors, family members, and singers at the drum as an offering. Most cultures have some social ties with sharing and giving gifts as part of its traditions. As a visitor to Darmstadt, I brought small screenprinted North American Bison prints as a small token or a curio of visual images and language for exchange. The Give-Away also refers to mass marketing imagery that inundates our contemporary culture such as advertising on billboards, small printed bills, television, junk e-mails, pop up advertising, and now pop under ads on the web.

Photos by: Laurie Beth Clark