ART FROM THE QUARANTINE | WEEK SIX | FLUX
ADDIE JUELL
These images are documents of ordinary occurrences around the house. Morning light through the blinds, a pile of dead leaves, petals and cigarette butts swept up on the patio, the vine of an eager house plant climbing up the wall, the shadow of a hand and a book. The quarantine is a great enabler for those of us who were already inclined to linger in the extreme blandness of everyday life. If you notice, no matter how much sameness there is, things are changing constantly and are waiting to be seen.
JULIAN WASS
I photographed a Parrot Tulip from our garden over three days. The fading of a favorite flower combined with natural elements that are constantly in flux: water & clouds.
BRENDAN BARRY
Meadow Grass and Buttercups
Valerian, Laburnum, Meadow Buttercup, Allium, and Cow Parsley
I’m definitely in a state of flux at the moment as I develop news ways of working from home, unable to run workshops and embark on collaborative and education based community projects as I usually do.
This image was shot with my shed camera; a large walk in camera with a built in darkroom that you operate from the inside. When lockdown started I needed a way of being able to keep working from home. With a toddler running around and tearing up the house, the shed seemed like the obvious (and only) choice!
The camera works just like any other camera really, but on a much bigger scale.
The positive images were taken with a complex colour reversal process that I have been developing over the last year. These prints are one of a kind as there is no negative. The process is long and laborious and the photographs hard to achieve. It usually takes me about 4 hours to make just one successful image, but when you get it right it is immensely satisfying!
The images are part of an ongoing series, the working title of which is Wildflowers picked on walks with Bea.
ELVIS MAYNARD
FLUX STUDIES
This week was an opportunity for me to reconnect with my original medium of painting. These are eight studies made with industrial acrylics on BFK Rives paper, all measuring 15” x 20”. My interpretation of the brief involves the tension of the black and white; the yin and yang; the give and pull. I wanted to study different ways in which they could co-exist, either easily, or in contrast to one another. The series evolved quite naturally - one outcome led to the next beginning - creating a conversation in eight parts.
The pieces are titled only in reference to the techniques that created them.
1st row : Pendulum on wet, Waves, Pendulum on dry, Transfer
2nd row : Thick on thin, Center splash, Vertical splash, Drip
GAËLLE JAUNAY-DESROCHES
DO IT FOR AN HOUR (Fluxus in the time of quarantine)
Monday
Stand at the front of your house waving at strangers walking by, be each of them your special someone coming home.
Tuesday
Stand up straight. Present your right arm to the left like they didn't belong with each other. Touch it softly, fighting, loving or not caring but do pay attention.
Wednesday
Find a wooden chair, put it in front of you, now go sit in the chair without it seeing you. Careful, the chair can hear too.
Thursday
Draw all the people you can think of on a rubbish mail cover and send it to the one you couldn't really make out and looks the saddest.
Friday
Run for your life all around your house until you have been in all the corners. Take 3 alcohol bottles, put them on a table, take out 3 shot glasses, sit down , serve the 3 glasses and remember 3 specific experiential memories at 5, 15 and 25 years old. Drink to each of them, you don't have to say anything but spend 1 minute with each of the moments. Run for your life all around the house for the rest of the time.
JONATHAN BUMBLE
JANE LOVE
I took the prompt quite literally. As I scrolled through the definitions of flux, I found one that hit home to me. My dear best friend Billy.
Billy is one of the coolest guys I know, if not THE COOLEST. And he happens to make really cool shit too. Billy makes belts (which he is most famous for), jewelry, leather rugs, purses, wallets, you name it - if it has leather and metal he can do it or has done it. His latest fabrication is the "corona dinglehoppers" - well that's what i would call them. They are door openers, atm puncherinners, texters (on the rounded side), and also pretty cool key chains. He let me take photos of him while making these new gadgets while using FLUX! So there you have it - flux.
His instagram is @billymadeforfriends and I would say that's his mantra: making cool shit for his friends.
AHMAD NASER ELDEIN
RA DAHAN
I think in the realm of art everyone experiences flux in a process of making, from changing mediums to making iterations of ideas you're obsessed with. For this tryptic I thought about the flux between abstract and figurative art and how the comparison of the two is a great place to explore what nonbinary looks like. Can someone explore gender fluidity through the fluid definitions in abstract art? What can you discover by the flux of an idea between styles and materials? I like to think of the smaller shapes I painted here as phantoms of the portrait in the middle, each different forms of each other.
ANGELA ROMERO PLACENCIA & PAULO PLACENCIA
FLUX
An emotional flux, flowing at an unforgivable pace.
You're right, I'm wrong. I'm right, you're wrong.
Happiness in love. Sadness in discomfort.
Choosing to be alone, but not alone.
Used to the pain, but open to the change.
Broken but flowing with endless possibilities.
My reflection belongs to me.
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