Michel Droge MFA '10 has won a Fulbright Fellowship for their proposed project, Light, Salt and Stone. Research and immersion in Greece and Iceland, followed by artistic development and production, will support Droge in their interdisciplinary work between cultural and scientific institutions. Of their proposed project, Droge writes:
“Light, Salt and Stone is an interdisciplinary art and science project that will explore the coastal and oceanic landscapes of Greece and Iceland. Often in transitional geographies, new ideas, images, and discoveries emerge. Liminal places can be a fertile space where imagination thrives and a connection is made between the seen and unseen, the known and unknown; a place for exploring the poetics of liminal spaces, where land meets sea and where art and science converge. Light, Salt, and Stone is a metaphor for that space illuminated between the sea and the land, and for the fertile imaginative ground between the conscious and unconscious mind. This is the area where meditative practice, deep scientific investigation, and visual expression can come together. Through a lens of marine research, my work will explore how life thrives in even the most extreme conditions. Both Greece, with its deep historical and philosophical roots, sublime coastlines and island formations, and Iceland, with its glaciers, volcanic formations and extremes of light, provide contemporary evidence of our planet's extremes and those perimeters where powerful forces of generation and adaptability are evident in an evolving climate.”