Reception: Saturday, May 14, 12 - 6pm
Exhibition: May 14 - June 26; open Sat & Sun 12 - 6pm
Publication Release: Saturday, June 25, 5 - 7pm
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What is this idea that if we pick up a rock it belongs to us? Hasn't extractionary thinking caused enough harm? 

For every object there is a corresponding absence somewhere else. 

The hole in the Ross Island lagoon is a reverse monument to Portland. 

The Ross Island Residency is a renegade project initiated by Taryn Tomasello and curator Will Elder, spanning June 2015 - June, 2016, at the site of a sand and gravel mine in the center of the city. This exhibition is the residue of symbolic gestures of replacement and a ritual-relational witness of trespass.