08/14/2019
Continental Edge Dweller(s)
is an ongoing expansive collaborative project initiated by McCarren/Fine
The meeting “Edge” of the “Continent” with the sea is at once a line, a space and a condition. “Dweller” is the personified triadic, triangulating the duality of land and ocean. To straddle this space, to dwell in its interstitial zone of confluence and turbulence, is to nestle in a Manichean actuality of opposites, an environmental emphatic that, as a ubiquitous condition, is undeniable and is by turns harmonious and violent, inviting and repellent, productive and destructive. The ebb and flow of this profoundly simple generative opposition is both the terrain and bane of the Continental Edge Dweller (who, incidentally, does not have to live in its location to be involved with its conditions).
Utilizing both an analytical and aesthetic methodology, CED is a project staking out subjects and modes of investigative materialized action. The CED enterprise has been developing, archiving and projecting possibilities since 1999.
Depicted in images here is the CED Global Icon, a continuous boundary-less assertion of the icon itself, CED, in varying locales, as overlays, mergers and geologic event. In one form this is an ongoing documented temporary stamp, fashioned from materials acquired or encountered at varying worldwide continental edges
