| PlatteForum: Harrison Candelaria Fletcher |
| Written by Ken Hamel | |||
Harrison Candelaria FletcherWriting a Shadowbox: Explorations in Visual and Literary CollagePlatteForumApril 30 - May 21, 2010
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, an essayist, journalist and mixed-media artist, grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother, an artist, collector and dreamer, spent weekends exploring the back roads and second-hand shops of New Mexico seeking treasures others had overlooked. “Look closely,” she would say, “everything here tells a story.” As an adult, few people had explained that notion to him more clearly than Joseph Cornell. From the late Twenties until his death at sixty-nine in 1972, Cornell explored the byways of New York City plucking objects from thrift shops shelves and arranging them in glass-covered “shadowboxes.” A broken doll. An astronomy chart. A bell jar. These were the artifacts that spoke to Cornell. In his basement on Utopia Parkway, he gave then new life. It is this kind of alchemy he brings to PlatteForum. During his residency he is creating, along with Urban Peak youth, a series of “literary collages.” These will include poems, vignettes and short stories that will be assembled into objects and images that become three-dimensional portraits of the participants. PlatteForum 1610 Little Raven Street Suite 135 Denver, CO 80202 Tue-Sat: Noon - 4:00 PM or by appointment 303.893.0791 http://www.platteforum.org
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