Alex Callender: Exploration by the Public 
Tuesday, September 2011

Artist-in-Residence, Alex Callender’s work focused around dislocation, and the duality of absence and presence in ecosystems, as our environmental crisis became more persistent and our ability to sustain the need of populations more fragile. Deer populations existed on the periphery of our expansion in this country and their habitation and population were often tethered to the ebb and flow of our development, expansion and industrialization dictated where and how they live and what they adapted to. This same precarity haunted many of the world’s inhabitants. Callender used deer as agents that offer a narrative about change. Once, they had been the occupants of this area, now us, and in the future other entities will presume the main narrative in this given space.