2015 Andrea Recalde, Hobart, New York
2015 Charlie Blanchard, San Francisco, California Back 2010 Angelique Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
As a means of arriving at a more critical and focused view of the dense capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti I sought to define a tangible image of the social and spatial conditions around the infrastructural systems linking the city through water distribution, the program of the latrine, and, subsequently, that of the market.
Upon arriving in Port-au-Prince the greatest challenge was to read the internal logic of the city, as there were seemingly a number of systems operating simultaneously and without resolution. Traveling along any major route, moments of complete desertion suddenly yield to moments of dense commercial activity. In the commercial centers, various informal programs, often incompatible, flow into contiguous spaces as a means of adaptation to allow new merchants to enter the commercial sphere and compete to surviv
The five-member Athens, Georgia-based indie-rock band Easter Island broke up in 2013. The guitarist moved to Texas to pursue a master s degree in business, and the drummer quit to start a family.
By 2014, Ryan Monahan, who was playing bass at the time and now plays guitar, and the band s singer and lyricist, Ethan Payne, discussed creating an album with just the two of them. As they began the process, they realized the songs were sounding like Easter Island songs, and they knew they needed to bring the whole band back together. They re-recruited keyboardist Asher Payne, Ethan s brother, and the group was resurrected.