Boa’s Repair Shop offers workshops to repair physical objects and metaphysical states of being. Caring for objects (which are imbued with human labor, networks of supply chains and raw materials) is caring for each other, Earth and ourselves. Much is made of the brokenness of our nation and our big divides. Surely this is true. But perhaps our search for final solutions is what keeps us from practicing more beneficial ways of being. What if systems are meant to be broken because breaking is always happening? In Boa’s Repair Shop Flag Repair, we approach the construction of a flag from the inside out by tapping into our deepest individual and collective resource – imagination. We journey to an imagined home, find its shape, bring these symbols out of our imaginations, develop them, and use them to create a flag together.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ALEXANDRA HAMMOND, CULTURE PUSH FELLOW, FELLOWSHIP FOR UTOPIAN PRACTICE
Alexandra Hammond’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, installation and conversational performances. She believes that all beings, objects and Earth inter-are and inter-be. This worldview supports an awareness that our experience of being separate individuals is a result of all-pervading consciousness “seeing itself.” This repositioning of the individual acknowledges that we are part of everything. There is only connection. This perspective calls us to move from extractive modes of operation to caring, maintenance and repairing. Hammond’s paintings are the poetic/pictorial manifestation of this worldview and her installations and performances are its spatial and experiential manifestation.
Hammond holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and BA from NYU’s Studio Art department. Her projects have been shown at Mass MoCA, The Shaker Museum, on the Instagram auction See You Next Thursday, and in New York City, Bangkok, Thailand and Graz, Austria. She is also a creative director, working with individuals, brands and institutions that are part of the regenerative social fabric and economy of the future. https://www.alexhammondstudio.com/