A Minute Description of the Route by Andy Kincaid at Et Al., San Francisco

A Minute Description of the Route
Et Al., San Francisco
December 15, 2017 – January 27, 2018

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[Vehicle] wheels cut solid rock, carving a memorial to Empire Builders. What manner of men and beasts impelled conveyances weighing on those grinding wheels? Look! A line of shadows crossing boundless wilderness.

Foremost, nimble [vehicles], come poised Mountain Men carrying trade goods to a [commodity] fair – the [event]. So, in [date], [leader] turns the first wheels from [location] to the Rocky Mountains! Following his fain trail, a decade later and through the [decades], appear straining, twisting teams of [vehicles] for [location] pioneers. Trailing the [location]-bound avant-garde but otherwise mingling with those emigrants, inspired by [belief] fervor, loom footsore and trail-worn companies – [sect] dragging or pushing [vehicles] as they follow [leader] to the Valley urging [vehicles] to extremity, straining resources and often failing, hurry [persons] [location] bound. 

A different breed, not emigrants but enterprisers and adventurers, capture the [era] scene. They appear, multi-teamed units [pulling], – heavy [vehicles] in tandem, [drivers] delivering freight to [event] outposts and agencies. Now, the apparition fades in a changing environment. Dimly seen, this last commerce serves a new, pastoral society; the era of the [commodity] baron and the advent of settlement blot the [route]. 

Andy Kincaid (b. Minneapolis, 1986) is an artist and curator who lives and works in Jackson Hole, Wyoming where he runs the gallery Holiday Forever, and is part of the curatorial group Peradam Capital.  The artist has exhibited at MINT – Columbus, The Neon Heater – Findlay OH, Yeah Marybe – Minneapolis, SiTE:LAB – Grand Rapids, MI, ACRE projects – Chicago, Altered Esthetics – Minneapolis, The Trout Museum of Art – Appleton, WI, The Neville Museum – Green Bay, WI, among others, with an upcoming exhibition at the Nicolaysen Art Museum – Casper, WY.