by Karrie Higgins | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
A big reason I always wanted to live on the SE side of Cedar Rapids: close proximity to Oak Hill Cemetery, where as a teenager, I used to explore at night in search of Tillie’s ghost. Legend had it she was buried in the potter’s field with an...
by Karrie Higgins | Mar 22, 2022 | ableism, accessibility, Cedar Rapids, climate change, Iowa, pyrography
When we first invited locals to burn lines into a slice from the Log of Unknown Origin to commemorate their lost trees, we didn’t elaborate on the form they should take. Even still, a pattern emerged immediately: short tally marks drawn perpendicular to the...
by Karrie Higgins | Mar 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the most exciting parts of The Log Project is uncovering hidden histories while researching the locations where we picked up logs. Sometimes, we grabbed logs in locations with a personal connection and discovered a rich historical one, too. One such log: The...
by Karrie Higgins | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
We collected this log from the Alzheimer’s hospice that cared for Karrie’s father. For this codex page, we are in process on a wax tablet with two contrasting layers of wax. The top layer will contain magnetite (iron oxide) aka Mars Black. The bottom will be...
by Karrie Higgins | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
We collected this log from the curb by 5 Turner Alley, aka Grant Wood’s studio. We have envisioned this “page” in the codex as a re-imagining of his famous painting Death on Ridge Road, typically viewed as an impending car wreck about to kill the people inside the...
