Get To It Gallery and Beyond

For the past 3 months I have embarked on a new project involving re-routing/nu-routing of public space and architecture. The Get To It Gallery Project has manifested itself as an online map of spaces in my neighborhood that have potential beyond their original design. I use these spaces as a way of engaging my own physical potential and at the same time create nu-potential for our public environment. Through the process of seeking out these spaces, mapping them, moving through them, I have gained a deeper understanding of them and a since of belonging to them.
The most liberating thing about the project is that my engagement to the spaces I move through satisfies any desire I have for creating art in the public. This satisfation has made me question the reasons for making public art in the first place. Much of the art I have done in public has either manifested in support of some kind of political movement, social justice and the like. I guess that a huge part of my interest in making things for public space comes from a desire to manifest some sort of community, a group mind, existing beyond the inner personal relationships of our daily lives. Relating to the physical nature of our environments has made me rethink my purpose for making art in the public. I find my self sizing up buildings, rooftops and stair wells. Designing routes and new ways to move through these spaces, and at the same time reclaiming space, making it my own. The goal of mapping our environment is to create an understanding of how to navigate a space, getting from point-A to point-B. One goal of the Get To It Gallery is to reinvent what Getting from Point-A to Point-B means. Its not about the destination, its about the journey.