OPEN EDITION GALLERY

Rabbit Island is a 91-acre forested island in Lake Superior three miles east of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula (USA). The majority of the island is held under a conservation easement granted by the Keweenaw Land Trust, assuring its unique ecosystem and will serve as a platform for science, art, preservation, and recreation for the generations. Rabbit Island is an Art Residency for artists where I spent one month in June 2018 considering the island my sketchbook, drawing with lights, colors, waves, stone marks, clouds, fog, and everything I could not control. Photos of my research I don’t draw related to several land art and fictional actions are available exclusively on OEG to support my work with Rabbit Island and other charity projects. The residency reflects on the American continent’s four hundred year history of settlement and division of land. It stems from the idea that in a developed society, the intelligent organization of wild spaces is one of the most civilized things we can pursue. The island itself, an unsettled and undivided area, enables artists to present commentary on these ideas, creating interpretations and solutions to issues of the global importance of climate change, loss of natural habitat, the value of pristine watersheds, the environmental implications of entrepreneurship, and so forth. Modern understanding of our biological reality and our cause-and-effect relationship dictates a need for principles worthy of time. […] © Rabbit Island Foundation / Alice Pedroletti – Read more at https://rabbitisland.org/art