About the "Dear Future" auction/fundraiser:

"Dear Future" began, perhaps, as a love letter to precarity, a poison pen to the present. Collecting impressions of our communal POV in the form of 65 distinct art objects, laden with perspectives that bridge right now (the impossible NOW) to the not-quite-Yet beyond the horizon. Join us and maybe you'll see we've put together a time capsule; join us to witness its temporary state of completeness before it's scattered again into the vectors of the hundreds of eager hands that keep our small a art existence alive: supported, recognized, and blossoming.

From a somewhat more pragmatic perspective, "Dear Future" bookmarks the last 12 months for Public Space One. With a nod to our Near Future pop-up exhibition last January to the ever-present Now (again, is it really NOW?) we all inhabit as we lay to rest our reflections of 2017 and enter the dear oh Dear Future.

"Dear Future" details at Public Space One

SANDRA DYAS
Red and White Trailer, Green Island, Iowa, Digital C-Type Print, 12" x 8", matted and framed to 20" x 16", 2014

Sandra Dyas is a visual artist and published author living in Iowa City. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1998. She is a Lecturer in Art at Cornell College, where she teaches photography, video, and performance art. Her work is a personal and poetic exploration of time, memory, and the human spirit. It contains philosophical questions of personal space as well as inner explorations of what it means to be living in the here and now.

Lost in the Midwest, a book of photographs about living in the Midwest, was self-published in 2016. Sandra has been collaborating with filmmaker LeAnn Erickson on Homegrown Stories since its inception in 2013. The online project is dedicated to the moving image as well as an intellectual interest in questions of personal space, the act of storytelling and the primacy of place in shaping one's world view.