WAYFINDING
INTRODUCTION
We are increasingly
interconnected in every way
possible in the 21st century. If
we cannot physically travel, we
visit virtually at our whim any
place in the world with the click
of a mouse. If we do travel in
actuality, our trusty Global
Positioning System or GPS
guides us every step of the way.
We are more ―plugged in‖ than
ever via myriad choices in
technology from iPhones to
social media sites like Twitter,
Facebook and LinkedIn.

As evidenced by the current global recession, the world has
truly become inextricably woven together – often in ways that are
overwhelming, destructive or combative and happily also in ways that
allow a wonderful flow and exchange of information...always at an
incredible speed. The accelerated pace which drives us and the global
village is at turns exhilarating and then fatiguing. Though we have a
world of information at our fingertips, this can also cause us to lose
our bearings—overwhelmed by a glut of information, we are
perpetually on the move, disoriented and often longing for a better
sense of rootedness, of familiarity, of culture and of place.

The exhibition Wayfinding considers how seven artists
explore this global interconnectedness and yearning for place and how
they revision a path and map their experience visually. These seven
use disparate methods and materials – some ancient such as the hand
ground and tinted marble dust sand paintings of Tenzin Wangchuk
and some contemporary such as topographical map-like plywood and
cardboard constructs of Itamar Jobani— as each explores the
interweaving of our very individual journeys.

Wangchuk, a Tibetan artist who left monastic life to pursue
his art with a ‗secular compassion‘ combines traditional practices with
modern means to give more permanence to his work and a voice and
vision for an endangered and displaced culture. Jobani, an Israeli

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