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      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
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      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
      • Clouded Title 2018
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      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Arterial Motives (2014)
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition (2014)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia (2014)
      • Proposals of Belonging (2013)
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      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
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      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
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      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
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    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
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      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
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    • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
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Anchor 8
​Christianna Potter Hannum, ‘Chalfant’ 
​from Christianna’s reading with Maxim D. Shrayer – Spring 2016

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'Chalfant' is a short piece from swishpan, one of the writer's four compilations of short stories and poems. It captures the writer's relationship to a specific and personally significant place here in Chester County – in a voice that is direct and evocative, getting right to the heart of the profound importance of place to our most human experiences.

Responses:

8A. John Y.  Wind, 'Christy's Castle', part of a larger work entitled 'The Women'. Listen to Street Road Director Emily Artinian, John, and Christy discuss this piece, and other things, here: 
​Christy’s Castle
 
Portrait of C (Christy’s Castle), 2016 is part of a larger, ongoing project entitled The Women. It is an examination and celebration of the women in my life through a series of collaborative, conceptual portraits. I am interested in exploring the complexity of public and private identity as represented by our material possessions; the ways in which we create and style our personas through stories, objects, and interactions with others; and the very definition and limits of portraiture. 25 diverse, life-size assemblages, many with audio tracks as well, will ultimately be displayed together as if at a party—a cacophonous tribute to the women in my life that also (I hope) invites viewers to consider their own identities.
Each portrait begins with a series of conversations between subject and artist. Biographical details emerge, interests, passions, fantasies.  Negotiations begin for what physical objects the subject is willing to donate to her piece, or what might be bought in facsimile. A concept gradually emerges, and over time and additional conversation and review, becomes reality…
For Portrait of C, we spoke about Christy’s life in broad strokes, and then in more detail about her epic adventure of the last few years—discovering Riga over a six month period and returning to the US with two beautiful, adopted Latvian children. I heard about the mysterious castles dotting the Latvian countryside. Not like Disney castles, she stressed--darker and lower to the ground. But still, castles meant for princes and princesses, and seemingly ideal for containing the lore and mythology of her own captivating life. 
I hired a woodworker to build Christy’s Castle from plywood, and had it mounted high atop a lattice fence and several steps that must be climbed to fully view the piece (and feel like a child doing so…) Like an advent calendar, the arches, windows and towers became literal doors into Christy’s narrative. Some compartments record the Latvian story directly—a map of Riga, a translated copy of Snow White, a Latvian snow globe… Some are about Christy’s own identity as an artist—a writer and filmmaker. One, containing a monogram ‘C’ necklace, represents a connection she and I share through my jewelry designs. A few are more private and cryptic, their meaning to others less obvious…representing in shorthand the deeper, more complicated picture of anyone’s true life.
Completed in mid-2016, this work also marks a turning point in my project—at just past the half-way mark, it represents a shift to more poetic portraits—an interest in capturing the subject’s essence through a simpler and more singular gesture; rather than working encyclopedically and building a whole from the sum of her parts as in earlier pieces. It is thus my hope that when all 25 women are displayed together, the variety of formal approaches, coupled with the diversity of the subjects themselves, will combine to create an inviting and compelling assembly.
A selection of other portraits can be seen on my website.
 
John Y Wind
January, 2017
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8B. 1889 Daily Local News article about the Barnard family brought in by Bob Gouge 
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A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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    • 2020
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
      • Clouded Title 2018
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Arterial Motives (2014)
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition (2014)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia (2014)
      • Proposals of Belonging (2013)
    • 2013
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020 - Interlocutors
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog