Carol Emmons is an artist specializing in large, site-specific installations. She also talks about "where does the art come from". She gives a few possibilities: genetics, environment, intervention, education, research, site, theme, and magic. And relate them to her artworks to find out where her art comes from.
"We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art, as a teaching machine designed to maximize perception and to make every day learning a process of discovery" (McLuhan,68). If people notice daily things around them, they may find art everywhere. In Carol Emmons' artwork KOSMOS (2012), she put her art in an upstairs room in the old farmhouse, which is really commonplace. There is a wooden magnifying periscope in the middle of the room, which can let people look out through the window with carved text. This is letting people observe the world in another way.
Like McLuhan said: "Time" has ceased, "space" has vanished (63). Time and space may change, but along with time, there might be something similar happen. Carol Emmons tries to "articulate the parallel between the director’s history as a child of the farm and that of Alexander von Humboldt (the title referencing Humboldt’s magnum opus)." As an installation artist, Carol Emmons uses space well to illustrate different "stories". Space can be a gateway that connects people through time. Something similar may happen in different time periods, but these similar elements in these things can connect them, and recap them.
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