fieldfaring

"I am a complete city person.
I grew up in the desert in Dubai. I am a banker. My family is from Mumbai, they have been traders for centuries. They traded nonfood. The family originated in Pakistan.
The first farm I saw was in upstate New York a month ago. In the orchard I picked my first apple"

- from a conversation at the Yerba Buena Cener for the Arts, collected by Antje Schiffers.

Temescal Amity Works navigated through various layers of contact with its multiple audiences. These started at the core of the project, in the highly personal, face to face encounters that occurred as we picked fruit at peoples homes and wheeled it through the neighborhood streets.  When the primary contact shifted to the more discursive, public site of an open storefront, dialogue was spread across multiple visitors and longer stretches of time. Out of these various conversations, we culled material, concepts and imagery that were transformed into publications and public programs, resulting in postcards, maps, public walks and programs. 

One of our central concerns was to construct an aesthetic sense of communication that carried through these varied forms in a resonant and poetic manner. To track these various levels of conversation, we created a 'blog style website that was updated frequently, and serves as the most consistent archive for the project. The Amity Works webite is no longer updated, but it can be seen in its entirety by following this link: (http://www.amity.fieldfaring.org).