Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Enter Text program / OCTOBER 2021<br />
Elizabeth Stine<br />
USA<br />
About<br />
I’m interested in the stories people tell about themselves and<br />
others, individually and in groups, fact or fiction. How do<br />
our stories change as they migrate across media, language,<br />
space? How do our identities change with these narratives?<br />
I have an academic background in the study of foreign<br />
languages, literatures and cultural history, and have come<br />
to <strong>Arteles</strong> to see where the next stage of my journey will take<br />
me and my stories.<br />
Exploration<br />
I came to <strong>Arteles</strong> to immerse myself in the materials for<br />
two non-fiction projects, and to find time for solitude and<br />
reflection — a break from my routines.<br />
I spent many happy hours at my desk reading and taking<br />
notes, allowing my imagination to wander over the landscapes<br />
that emerged from my materials and, often, to inhabit the<br />
beautiful view from my window over the lake and fields. I<br />
also spent hours every day out of doors, exploring the local<br />
area on foot and on one of the <strong>Arteles</strong> bicycles, watching<br />
the colors of the landscape change as the autumn advanced<br />
and listening to the swans as they gathered for migration.<br />
Somewhere in all of this, I began to see how I could order<br />
the narrative of events I was reconstructing, where to begin<br />
writing.<br />
Being able to return from these solitary adventures to the<br />
community of fellow residents was a real privilege, especially<br />
after the isolation of the past couple years. Getting to know<br />
everyone, their work, their backgrounds, was inspiring, and<br />
our conversations will stay with me in my writing and in daily<br />
life. The supportive community was <strong>Arteles</strong>’ greatest gift,<br />
and I’m grateful to have been able to share in it.