Views From a Puddle, 2019-20
AN installation at mh projects — Lower east side, New York
Views from a Puddle installation combines video and drawings along with text from a poem by artist/poet, JoAnne McFarland, selected in response to Cogswell’s videos. Cogswell’s videos were shot while participating as the Lucile Walton Fellow, Artist-in-Residence at Mountain Lake Biological Station Art lab in Virginia during the summer of 2019.
In an effort to engage with the world that the biologists and botanists in residence were researching, Cogswell used a small GoPro camera to shoot footage underwater in puddles, while swimming in ponds, and in the grass along mountain paths while hiking through the forests. Drawings were created in response to this video footage - both during the residency and throughout the fall. Observations from this experiment with the video camera led to a realization of how our view of the world is impacted and determined by where we are standing — both literally and figuratively.
