Video by resident alumnus Trey Burns, generously underwritten by the Corsicana Visitors’ Bureau.
VIRGINIA L. MONTGOMERY (VLM)
Austin, Texas - 100W 3rd Floor Studio
Metaphysical, multimedia artist VLM makes small moments of magic happen with symbolic experiments in video art, sound art, and sculpture. Her artwork explores the philosophical praxis of "atomic consciousness" via a surreal and sensorial deployment of recursive symbols like circles, holes, spheres, and the faux eye-spots seen on moth wings. During her Corsicana residency, VLM hatched 3 live Luna moths from their cocoons and collaboratively created a sound work with her moth familiars. She has additionally created a small, hand-made series of kinetic, wire mobiles, and stone sculptures inspired by the hopeful process of metamorphosis. VLM's diverse artistic movements interrogate the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures with an eye towards the uncanny omnipresence of circular symbolics. Her work asks, "Does consciousness shape the moon, the egg, the eye?" www.hellovlm.com
JOSÉ MORBÁN
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - 100W 2nd Floor Studio
José’s work comes from archives, found photographs, films, documents and other memorabilia from the Caribbean. Through paintings, drawings, prints and art objects he creates narratives that reflect on the political history of the region and the figures who shape it. While in Corsicana, José worked in a series of drawings relating to CORDE, a group of State-owned Dominican companies created during the 1960’s and the influence it had on the construction of modern Dominican identity. www.josemorban.com
BARRAK ALZAID
Kuwait City, Kuwait - 100W Writing Studio
Barrak spent his mornings in Corsicana revising his memoir Fabulous, which chronicles his coming of age as a queer person in Kuwait. His afternoons were devoted to his new project, Are We Then Yet?, a speculative climate fiction novel that depicts how society grapples with the abundance of oil and its subsequent scarcity. Inspired by the coincidences and convergences between Corsicana and Kuwait, he has been researching key moments and individuals who contributed to Corsicana’s shifts and transformations. www.barrakalzaid.com