The land Earthbound Moon is leasing is located just south of Bledsoe, 1.3 miles down Farm Road 125. The 1.17 acre plot is 1/3 mile east of Farm Road 125. At the moment there are no roads. Previously used for cattle grazing, the property is situated in the 430 acre Branding Iron Subdivision. The area has be divided up into hundreds of ±1 acre plots. Given this, the future of the area is unknown. The land could continue to be surrounded by wide-open grassland, a few scattered mobile home neighbors or it could suddenly find itself in the middle of a tract home development.
Earthbound Moon is pleased to be collaborating with Stel and Angela Valavanis. Jon has created two pieces for our 2011 installation, one to be installed on property leased to EbM by Stel and Angela Valavanis. The other will be installed on the deck at their business, Creative Coworking. In January, Jon visited Evanston with EbM member, Lee Pembleton to see both of the sites and begin work designing his pieces. Jon will be installing his sculpture diptych for us in July.
We intend for Earthbound Moon itself to be a work of interplanetary conceptual art. Sites will not be just a local artwork/commons, but a node of a larger artwork themselves. Like orchids, each site will be an individual bloom from a single organism that stretches across the human environment. To this end, each site will be joined along one edge with another site in some way, so that were you to take a satellite photo of each, they could be puzzled together to create a standard sculpture garden. The sites, however are being leased in shapes that allow for this sculpture garden to be pieced together not as a terrestrial parcel of land, but as a sphere that could function as a new moon for Earth. A moon held in the public trust by 23E Studios, visitable by all humans, serving as a place to relax, exercise, garden, dream, picnic, and perform. A park for all humanity, in orbit around our shared home.
We are committed to keeping all signage off of our sites, exempting the 23E Studios plaque featuring information on Earthbound Moon and the specific work. There will be no “keep off” or “do not touch” signs. There will be no fences and guards. The works must be able to withstand nature, both human and environmental. Each sculpture will present a Gordian knot of a challenge to the artists proposing to work the site.
In choosing sites, Earthbound Moon considers every environ that humans encounter as fair game. Not only are we looking at cities, towns, villages and hamlets for sites, but we intend to locate sculptures on the pacific trash vortex , at the bottom of the ocean in international waters, on Antarctica, in the space debris ring orbiting Earth, at the LaGrange points in space, on the moon, on mars, and in extragalactic vehicles. Beyond this, we harbor the desire to work with billboard companies, to get 20% of billboards worldwide donated to photographers, painters, coders and other artists. As a first step in this goal, in 2012 we are installing a billboard along I-40 in Moriarty, NM, and will commission artists for it at six month intervals. Send submissions for the billboard to EbM.