"Carolanne Patterson    |   carolannepatterson@gmail.com    Blue,  2016, California pine cone, spray paint, motor, steel, foot pedal, 10"" x 8""  Value: Optimization Currency: Generosity  Nomadic Pinecone. As a seed, this work must pollinate and move around. Possession coupled with generosity will increase its value. If you want this piece, you must be willing to give it away for five years (or longer). Eventually you will get it back. A commitment to this agreement, along with a travel diary of its whereabouts is required. This work must travel each year to a new home, for five years. The first year it lives with you, then you will find it a second temporary home. That person then does the same. You do not need to know the other participants. After five years it will come back to you. You can choose to keep it moving or have it for yourself permanently after this journey. Documentation of the pinecone's excursion, a simple travel diary, is a way for you (and me) to learn about the people and places that will have the piece for the years it is not in your possession. This is an experiment in movement and the unlikely concept of increasing value by sharing - in this case artwork, usually a very subjective personal purchase. By working together, many people will participate in the experiment of this value exchange. The pinecone's performance in each of its residences fulfills the value of its movement, since it has to be activated by a human to turn the motor, to stay in motion. Increasing human involvement in the realization of this exchange is what interests me most."
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