LIFEBOX - Covid19 art
Lifebox
April 16 2020, Quarantine day 25: Creativity takes a turn when silence comes into play. My life is very much a hussle-bustle, what with a regular job and then art everything: my paintings, photography, exhibits, projects with schools and communities, giving and taking workshops, and managing a local gallery. Sometimes in the wake of the insane amount of action I become the function of myself instead of myself.
A return to silence has made me remember the effect of time, and the stillness of time that only happens when I create. The isolation of quarantine has made me want to put these creations in the light that only social media can make shine.
My first instinct was to photograph myself. I researched some interesting portrait photographers, liking Sally Mann the most, but not inspired to do what any of thrm had done. Then the urge struck me to document myself THROUGH my landscape, my surroundings, my castle, my prison. As with all my work, they are banal and dramatic, simple and mysterious.
I’m amused that of all the creative projects I’ve had on the back-burner, what I had tired of the most and was the least inspired by for the last few years is the one that bubbled to the surface with the most intensity when I finally - truly - relaxed: photography. In front of all my skills and creative interests, the strongest and most intimate expression of all was the one I had practically abandoned.
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April 16 2020, Quarantine day 25: Creativity takes a turn when silence comes into play. My life is very much a hussle-bustle, what with a regular job and then art everything: my paintings, photography, exhibits, projects with schools and communities, giving and taking workshops, and managing a local gallery. Sometimes in the wake of the insane amount of action I become the function of myself instead of myself.
A return to silence has made me remember the effect of time, and the stillness of time that only happens when I create. The isolation of quarantine has made me want to put these creations in the light that only social media can make shine.
My first instinct was to photograph myself. I researched some interesting portrait photographers, liking Sally Mann the most, but not inspired to do what any of thrm had done. Then the urge struck me to document myself THROUGH my landscape, my surroundings, my castle, my prison. As with all my work, they are banal and dramatic, simple and mysterious.
I’m amused that of all the creative projects I’ve had on the back-burner, what I had tired of the most and was the least inspired by for the last few years is the one that bubbled to the surface with the most intensity when I finally - truly - relaxed: photography. In front of all my skills and creative interests, the strongest and most intimate expression of all was the one I had practically abandoned.
DAILY UPDATES to this series on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aerebb/?hl=en
