I'm currently taking a ceramics studio with the endlessly talented ceramist David East called Cut and Paste. One of our class assignments was to put together a show that responds to MICA's Mount Royal Station Building. We all did research and came up with sketches for the space. We ended up with a few collaborations and all unique pieces.
My piece titled Who's Here? Who's Not? deals with Baltimore's population history and "white flight." Mount Royal was a stop for B&O's luxury train line originally called Royal Blue. While the name changed several times throughout the years, the line still maintained a high class image. In the years the building functioned as a train station, the wealthy neighborhoods surrounding it that were originally white became integrated with immigrant and black residents. Many white families moved from the city in the the suburbs at rapid paces.
I overlaid a map of Baltimore from the time Mount Royal Station opened with a map of Baltimore land use at the time it stopped functioning as a train station. This is about as installation as I've gone with ceramics. I think I like it.
Or, as Patti might say, I've tidied up my point of view. I've got a new attitude!
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