Caroline Kelley
Untitled Untitled (Fjords) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Fjords) Untitled (Fjords) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Bergen) Untitled (Cape Cod) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled (Berlin) Untitled Untitled
RE: Journey
In September 2010 I moved in Montréal, QC to be a Research Associate at the Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University. I didn’t know many people so I joined an online dating website as part of my plan to meet more people. I met someone through this website in October that I really liked. We started to see each other all the time. I knew I was leaving in early 2012 for several months to go to Bergen, Norway to work on my Arctic Circle Project so I invited him to come with me in November. He said, “Yes.” We bought our plane tickets together in December and he drove from Montréal to my family's home on Cape Cod to meet me at the beginning of January. When we bought our tickets he said smiling, “Maintenant, on est coincé tout les deux jusqu'à mi-février.” We flew from Boston to Chicago and Chicago to Frankfurt and Frankfurt to Bergen one week later. This project is a record of our relationship but it’s also (partly) the context of my project on the Arctic Circle which is likewise about journeys, calculated risks, disappointment, imagined possibilities, hope, language divides, failure, power struggles, and emotional highs and lows... I’ve noticed that the idea of love is an undercurrent in much of my work so RE: Journey is an acknowledgement of this and an attempt to 'bring it forward.' The work consists of texts representing our emails, text messages, and conversations as well as a selection of photos we took together in Cape Cod, Bergen, the Norwegian Fjords and Berlin.
BACK TO PROJECTS