PORTLAND: BRITTANY POWELL
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Brittany Powell is a mixed media artist that works primarily with contact paper cut-outs installed within interior locations. Re-imagining inhabitied spaces with shapes of familiar objects playfully presented, Brittany's work effectively merges time and place into a specific locale. The project highlighted in this episode involved creating postcards for Portland State University through their One Percent for the Arts program. Capturing images of places on the campus itself, Powell then provides passers-by with the opportunity to take a 'souvenir' of the image from the very spot it was taken. Suggesting the concrete through photography, Powell's project also hints at the ephemeral and transitory nature of memory and place. "You are here" takes on wider meaning within this context, and asks us to bring to bear the very question to that answer in the form of where, when, and most importantly, for how long?