We will mark four segments of the state line, and use interviews, photographs and moving images to define our mission. Meanwhile we will give firsthand impressions of marginal farmland, isolated communities, and local histories that have been able to stay off the radar from the rest of the world. This OK/ TX border would appear less than perfect for a Greenbelt Meridian, yet it is in reality tailor made for our project. We are dedicated to putting back a continuous path around the globe ... No roads, no fences, No Man's Land, No Shoes Land as a symbol of hope for the Earth carried forever into the future.
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| Antelope Hills, near Durham, Oklahoma
James Gallagher was born 1959 and grew up in Connecticut. After graduating from art school, James moved to New York. In the city he worked and learned multiple building trades from workers who immigrated from Poland, Jamaica, Guyana, and Italy. In 1989 James moved to Taiwan, raised two children, and learned to speak Mandarin, as well. Yiren Gallagher, a public high school art teacher in Tulsa was born in Taiwan and received her BA from the National Taiwan Normal University and her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
James and Yiren worked in collaboration and many of their projects have illuminated the contradiction of human intelligence that separates the land and Nature. In 2011, the artists obtained a sponsorship from the US Department of State with the Visual Arts Initiative Program to travel to Taiwan to participate in the 2011 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival and worked alongside with international artists. James and Yiren have lived and worked in Tulsa, Oklahoma since 1994.
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