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Past Present is a journal of contemporary art practices that intersect with historic spaces, material collections, and cultural histories. Our articles, interviews, and features are curated with a confluence of audiences in mind: artists and arts practitioners, university students and scholars of art history and theory, and general audiences interested in exploring this intersectional space.
Among the themes considered in the following essays and interviews, a throughline is the idea of process as an embedded layer within a work of art. The issue begins with Sandra Eula Lee, interviewed on her ongoing series The Walking Mountain. She compares the series to a musical score or a garden that changes as it is tended over time—the process of tending her installations creating new meaning with each iteration.
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