A Studio In The Woods

Katie Holten, February 16, 2012

resident1112 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:33:50 +0000

it’s my last day.
i’m packing up everything.
i look forward to coming back in May to install new work in the Great Hall at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
that opens Friday, June 15 – see you there!

Katie Holten, February 15, 2012

resident1112 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:37:13 +0000

i was spoilt for Valentine’s day – Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker treated me to BBQ from The Joint.
it was a lovely evening filled with talk about their new book: UNFATHOMABLE CITY: A New Orleans Atlas.
i’m excited to be working with them on it.

when i got back to my studio in the woods – there was a lizard dancing on one of my (oil and gas) maps -

click here for more info on Rebecca Solnit’s INFINITE CITY: A San Francisco Atlas

Benjamin Morris on The Reading Life on WWNO

ASITW — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:25:32 +0000

Click HERE to hear Susan Larson’s interview from 11/29/11

Katie Holten, February 11, 2012

resident1112 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:09:58 +0000

Venice -
i went out in a boat.
crossed the Mississippi River.
wandered down natural bayous and man-made canals.
made it to Venice – the end of the road – the edge of the country.
along the way i saw an armadillo, cows, a snake, otter, lots of fish, all kinds of birds, and a friendly owl.
and everywhere there was lots and lots of water where once there was land. saltwater where once there was freshwater.

LEFT: phone GPS screenshot.
RIGHT: the road to Venice is surrounded by water and will soon join the rest of the disappearing land.

THANKS: Captain Richie Blink, Monique Verdin, Jakob Rosenzweig

click here for more photos

LEFT: Sport Fishermen hang their catch.
RIGHT: view from the Venice Marina

LEFT: aerial view of the Mississippi River edge around Fort Jackson, Louisiana.
RIGHT: the edge of the Mississippi River from our little flat bottomed boat.

Katie Holten, February 7, 2012

resident1112 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:52:37 +0000

i’m reading -

Harold Fisk, detail of a map of the alluvial valley of the lower Mississippi River, 1944

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING New Cartographies of Networks and Territories
Janet Abrams and Peter Hall (editors)

Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Adrian Bejan and Peder Zane

Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans
Richard Campanella

Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm
Richard Campanella

New Orleans District Offshore Oil Rigs and Oil Tracts
Chubb Custom Cartography

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wrestling New Orleans from Nature
Craig Colten

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
Tyler Cowen

An Internet of Things
Keller Easterling

The Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River
Harold Fisk (courtesy Radical Cartography)

Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics
Graham Harman

Waiting for Gaia: Composing the common world through arts and politics
Bruno Latour

Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
Manuel Lima

Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha

The Ecological Thought
Timothy Morton

What Would the World Be Without Women: Stories from the 9th Ward
Waukesha Jackson, published by The Neighborhood Story Project

City of Refuge
Tom Piazza

Why New Orleans Matters
Tom Piazza

Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America
Jennifer Price

Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution
David Rothenberg

Where we Know: New Orleans as Home
David Rutledge (editor)

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Rebecca Solnit

Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
Billy Sothern

Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
State of Louisiana

The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
Robert Sullivan

Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast
Mike Tidwell

Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
Peter Turchi

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Duncan Watts

Science, Nonsciencse, and Nonsense: Approaching Environmental Literacy
Michael Zimmerman

Katie Holten, February 6, 2012

resident1112 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:25:43 +0000

the other day i went cycling through the french quarter, bywater, lower ninth ward, treme, mid city, and city park.
my favorite way to see the “impossible but inevitable city.”

Katie Holten, February 2, 2012

resident1112 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:32 +0000

yesterday i visited Cocodrie – a tiny fishing community at the end of the road. the road is the white line in the top right of the google earth pic below.
the other lines are natural bayou’s and man-made channels created by the oil and gas industry. the coast is riddled and i went canoeing through the riddles…

Dr. Alex Kolker gave me a tour of LUMCON and filled me in on his work investigating the natural, climatic, and anthropogenic processes that govern the coastal systems of the Mississippi River Delta.

Katie Holten, February 1, 2012

resident1112 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:39:59 +0000

yesterday i went for a walk in the Barataria Preserve and today i downloaded the photos.
you can see some of them here

Katie Holten, January 25, 2012

resident1112 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:42:41 +0000

looking forward to tomorrow’s boating expedition with captain Richie Blink.
he’s going to show me the wetland restoration work that he’s being doing in Venice and Empire.
i’ve always wanted to visit the Mississippi River Delta – such a beautifully strange and tragic part of America.

Richie has been planting salt-tolerant Bald Cypress saplings in an effort to help reclaim coastal wetlands, restore Louisiana’s eroded coastline and reduce future storm surges at the Venice Port Complex. “We’re finding that the more alligators in the area the lower the mortality rate of the trees,” Blink says, “you can really see how everything is connected.”

Katie Holten, January 24, 2012

resident1112 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:53:03 +0000

Silently watching time pass
I draw shadows
As they change slowly

click here to see what i’m working on right now