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Stargazing | Mia Capodilupo

14 Jul 2017 – 5 Aug 2017

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Stargazing originated from Mia Capodilupo's ritual of picking up trash around her studio in the West Side of Chicago everyday.

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Initially, frustrated that the trash never seemed to end, she eventually began to wonder how it might be transformed. Combining the trash she collected with styrofoam and other materials destined for the landfill and she constellated the materials into starlike forms fit for "stargazing." 

“Often referenced by the media and residents as a largely poor, crime-ridden area of the city, the West Side has gone through many transitions in its ethnic and socioeconomic makeup due to its historic role as a gateway for immigrants and migrants as well as its role for funneling poorer residents away from the wealthier lakeside neighborhoods and central business district. Today, the West Side consists of large communities of widely working class, low income,
and poverty-stricken Black, Puerto Rican, and Mexican residents; some small communities of blue-collar, lower-middle-class and middle class white residents of historically Polish, Italian, Czech and Greek, descent; and newer communities of middle-class and upper middle class white residents created by gentrification.” -- "West Side, Chicago." Wikipedia, 15 May. 2017. Web. 

Capodilupo's focus is on the dreams and ambitions of achievement that start from these poor, undervalued and trash strewn landscapes as well as the ability of residents there to change their circumstances and change the landscape over time. She is thrilled to re-constellate her starlike forms in the Garment District--an unlikely high-end location for some of the lowest materials in American society.

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