With Calendar II, Johnston renders an experience from her childhood spent living in close proximity to the archaeological site from which the piece borrows its name. Located on the same land as Johnston’s family farm in South Woodstock, Vermont, Calendar II is a dome structure, the origins of which have never been sufficiently traced. The site’s opaque history and unique physical qualities have attracted a wide spectrum of visitors who embed their own historical and personal narratives on the archeological space. Perhaps the most alluring of these physical properties is the beam of light produced during the winter solstice created by the astrological alignment of the structure. This solar phenomenon serves as a critical focus for viewers of both Calendar II and Johnston’s sculpture. The use of light and material in Johnston’s work evokes a similar mysticism as the archeological site in South Woodstock.

Act 1
Living room scene: An infant crawling on hands and knees searches for the remote controller as a father looks on from the doorway.
Father: “You’ll find it in a suitable place. Where it should be. Like hand in glove”

For its archeological plot Packet presents a graveyard of failed ideas.
May the beloved memory of our disappointments rest peacefully.

Anna Miller’s practice has long focused on repetitive process, the gradual accumulation of effects in a given material. The systematized methods by which she engages with simple materials (honey, beeswax, wood, cheesecloth) intend to bring out some of their inherent qualities – the gradual emergence of a material’s own voice along with her own.
The small objects and material that Miller has buried and unearthed make up some of the base ingredients of her sculptural practice. With the systematic excavation of the plot – tools, objects, materials, and dirt organized into sequential piles – she reflects the processes by which her own work is developed and realized.

Where’s plot contains extremely rare first editions of each of our catalogs: the proofs and first runs from our on-demand publication system. These first tries are generally riddled with errors, and the book files quickly updated and re-loaded to the publisher’s server; the prior version, and its attendant faults, are lost. These books are the material remains of discarded information.