Photo by Kat Bawden

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 12, 2-5pm
On View: Sunday, November 12, 2023 - Sunday, January 14, 2024

Fern Room at Lincoln Park Conservatory

2391 N. Stockton Drive, Chicago

Exhibition hours: open Wednesday - Sunday, 10am – 5pm

Free admission

312.742.7736

Note: the piece is 20 minutes long followed by 10 minutes of silence, repeating every half hour.

My Ideal is Windy is a site-responsive installation inhabiting Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room. The work is brought to you by 2023 Alba Artist-In-Residence Dorothy Carlos.

“My Ideal is Windy is a reflection on real and imagined places. I hadn’t lived in Chicago before I moved here two years ago, but I was born here and my parents have always talked about their life here. Well before the time I decided to move to Chicago, I already had a fleshed out picture of the city that I had inherited from the memory of my parents. The installation is a way for me to reconcile my past imagined and current realistic perceptions of Chicago and express the conflicting emotions that emerge from that experience. This installation is dedicated to my parents Felix and Kirsten Carlos”

-Dorothy Carlos

“My Ideal is Windy” was commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio for the Florasonic sound installation series, a partnership with the Chicago Park District.

The 2023-2024 Florasonic season is supported by the Puffin Foundation Ltd. ESS programs & services are made possible through the generosity of our members and donors. Major support is provided by the DEW Foundation, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, Walder Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, New Music USA, and The Alice M. Ditson Fund.