Jon Horvath: The States Project: Wisconsin | LENSCRATCH

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Jon Horvath: The States Project: Wisconsin

On the outside, Jon Horvath seems very calm. But in his head, and in his artistic practice, there’s plenty of action. I have the privilege of being an occasional sounding board for Jon’s artistic musings, and I can tell you that there seems to be no limit

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Passages utilizes excerpts from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road as source material for orchestrated drives on Wisconsin’s alphabetical county trunk highway system. Using GPS technology to track each drive, newly generated line drawings emerge as evidence of Kerouac’s text being written in the landscape, with an automobile effectively functioning as a pen.