fields of our fathers

Fermentation Festival, 2016

Majeed was invited to create an installation as part of Wormfarm's Fermentation Festival. After spending some time with the farmers and landowners, listening to them talk about their families' land, Majeed was struck by the history and invisible boundaries this land carried, about the dimensions of history embedded in the dirt, and extended out into this space that blurred convoluted red tape and land laws with memory, with family history. 

This 30'x30' muslin cloth was laid over the resistant corn fields as Majeed attempted to capture their imprint, the marks of resistance and overlap of a landscape forced into a flat plane, and given life again by the wind as it is lifted vertically against the horizon.