Xinan Ran - SoilSandSelfie

"hurry" to the grounds this week to experience SoilSandSelfie, by visiting artist Xinan Ran. Xinan Ran and collaborator Sarah Lammer have been moving and ramming earth into text! By combining "clay loam" topsoil, lime, and water, shoveling the mixture into molds, and tamping, they have made 3D words that scribe the land.

Want to help complete the work or take a selfie with the artist? Stop by this week (Tuesday through Friday), June 18 - 21, between 11am and 5pm, to help the artists complete the remaining line of text and/or take a selfie. Wear your work clothes!

All participants will receive a postcard of the selfie via mail.

Stop by the park office or walk out to the artists in the fields! Questions or accomodations? Call us or email: 315-655-3196 or sayward@sqhap.org

Xinan and Sarah adjusting a clamp on the letter mold in the midst of tamping the soil mixture.

About the artist:

Xinan Helen Ran (b. 1994. Inner Mongolia, China) is an artist who specializes in fabric, language, and found objects to construct emotional landscapes. She searches for the point where trauma, nihilism, and humor converge. Xinan has exhibited nationally and internationally at Inna Art Space (Hangzhou), Hauser & Wirth (New York), and collaborated on public projects with Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology (Cambridge, MA), Clover Nature (Shanghai), Acompi (New York) and Beam Center (New York). Xinan was a 2023 mentee in New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center resident (2022), and an Ox-Bow Summer Fellow (2016). Xinan is also an art educator, an art administrator, and a set designer for new theaters. www.xinanran.work