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Leah Dyjak

Assistant Professor of Visual Art
 
New Beach
Location: Massachusetts
Biography: LEAH DYJAK is an interdisciplinary, lens-based artist whose work combines performance, labor, film, and photography to explore how generations of human use affect the ecologies of place. Dyjak’s images and site-specific installations often... MORE
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New Beach
Copyright Leah Dyjak 2024
Date of Work Jan 2017 - Ongoing
Updated Dec 2019
Topics Action, Beachs, Borders, Capitalism, Climate Change, Dreams, Energy, Environment, environmental collapse, Hope, Migration, Spirituality, Swimming
Conceivably, the ocean contains all time and all places with the coastline delineating where the understood meets the unfathomable. It acts as a boundary, the line between where we walk and where we float. Standing at the edge is a way to become physically close to our point of origin, geologically, biologically, metaphysically. It is the terra incognita of the modern world. A thing that affects us all. The line of the coast as we know it changes with every crash of a wave, so quickly our data becomes obsolete instantaneously.
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