Hey Kim, your email address isn't accepting mail, so here is the general group description I've come up with so far
WFS
We are a group of advance art students who sought out a support structure that Evergreen was not offering. We found each other and set up our own community by doing shared readings, holding seminars, critiques, and events. Though we work in many different types of mediums, from pencil drawings to sugar sculpture, we have created an intimacy with and influenced each other's work.
Wunderkammer (a.k.a. Cabinet of Curiosities) The word cabinet originally described a room, rather than a specific piece of furniture. Beginning in the 16th century, these were rooms (and later a smaller series of shelves) that housed arranged collections of interesting objects. The objects came from a variety of sources from geology, archeology, natural history, art, or religious relics. These objects were wonderous and often a blend of fact and fiction, such as taxidermy mythical animals. "In 1587 Gabriel Kaltemarckt advised Christian I of Saxony that three types of item were indispensable in forming a "Kunstkammer" or art collection: firstly sculptures and paintings; secondly "curious items from home or abroad"; and thirdly "antlers, horns, claws, feathers and other things belonging to strange and curious animals""
The Wunderkammer was a place for solace and meditation as well as setting to convey allegory and power through the symbolic arrangement of the objects which acted as a microcosm of the greater world.
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