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Independent/Scott Kingsley Like many artists before him, multimedia artist Shawn Patrick Landis had a direction he wanted to go once coming to Art Farm and, within days of his arrival, threw those plans out the window. The good news is Landis has a formula for coming up with project ideas, and Art Farm was a great environment to apply that formula. ÒI have a long phase of drinking coffee and eating and thinking and drinking coffee and eating and thinking,Ó he said. ÒSo I have plenty of ideas. ThereÕs not a lot out here to distract you.Ó What he conceived and executed (and ultimately changed a few times) involved an old truck, a pond liner and lots of air. Landis has worked with inflatables in the past and decided to go that route for his main piece for Art Farm. His work involved the pond liner on top of a truck. Once the liner is inflated, it allows him to highlight the use of interior space. ItÕs in line with some of his past work, though it did take a while to develop. ÒItÕs funny because it turned out exactly like my drawings, exactly how I wanted, and I hated it,Ó he said. ÒSo I spent some time changing it around, and IÕm pretty content with it now.Ó One of LandisÕ other major projects has less to do with art and more to do with inspiration. He created a banya, or Russian bathhouse, out of an old chicken coop and an abandoned stove on the grounds, which works very well. In fact, the hardest part of building the structure, he said, was finding rocks in the sandy Nebraska landscape. As for todayÕs show, he said heÕs interested in seeing how people react but also grateful for what he was able to accomplish at Art Farm. ÒIÕll have plenty of ideas when I get back,Ó he said. artfarm02 sk
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