30/09/2026
Dewitt Godfrey
Pamplona
2006
New Haven, Connecticut.
©Dewitt Godfrey
“When asked‘What is it for?‘, I am struck by the questions I ask my students: I ask them to consider what a work of art does as much as what it is, what is the function of the work in the world, and, as above, what is it for? ‘Public Art: Moving Site’ showed me, in addition to the physical and formal challenges as described above, the possibilities of public art in a social sense. I learned how even the temporary presence of a piece of art can engage an entirely unpredictable and unexpected range of collaborations and relationships. The encounters I experienced traveling from community to community taught me about the possibilities of art’s place and function in the world as Pamplona was transformed into a piece of the collective memory of a specific place at a specific time, over and over again.”
Excerpt from Dewitt Godfrey’s website.
