Gavin Christie: "Cereals of the
80's"
2010
typing on paper

Gavin, an autistic savant, types and handwrites lists, on a daily basis, recording his photographic memories of dates, directions, closed stores, earlier book editions, tv guide listings from the 80's, and defunct brands of snacks and cereals, among other compendia. Gavin types on an 1980's-era word processor, not a computer, ritually organizing memories of time, space, and food: televisual and suburban. Project blog: http://darkwoodslightwoods.wordpress.com/

Leona Christie / Gavin Christie:
"Dark Woods, Light Woods #5"
2004-2011
Series of 20 Photo-polymer Relief Prints

As part of an ongoing collaborative project between sibings, Leona and Gavin Christie, "Dark Woods, Light Woods" consists of a series of 20 debossed prints. The prints are blind-printed (ink-less) exact fascimiles of Gavin's typed lists, hand-printed on an etching press by Leona from photo-polymer plates. In “Dark Woods, Light Woods,” Gavin recalls the big box stores and retail establishments as they appear during a suburban Detroit journey, as well as the traces of “dark woods” and “light woods” remaining in between. He calls this process "pretending to drive."