Gray Area Showcase Winter 2020 - Room 1

Echo chamber evokes the distorted reality that occurs when we focus solely on ideas that reenforce our preconceptions. 

The Uncanny Forest recontextualizes the ever-increasing global wildfires into the cyclical seasonal narrative of the planet. It depicts a surreal forest that goes through a slow change in seasons: a wet season, a life season, a fire season and a death season only to restart once finished. The Uncanny Forest focuses on the wildfires without dramaticizing or politicizing them;  giving space for the viewer to connect with and process the emotions stoked by the constant barrage of information, allowing the viewer to sit with and process the reality of living in this new world.

I Just Can't Help Myself is about the sometimes inexplicable impulse to draw outside the lines, or in this case: shake antique vases and touch paintings in a classic art museum. The observer is invited to embrace the urge and become the artist, revealing their own version of an existing painting as their exploration of the environment deepens, toying with the notion that misbehaving is a creative act of self discovery. 

I Just Can't Help Myself is about the sometimes inexplicable impulse to draw outside the lines, or in this case: shake antique vases and touch paintings in a classic art museum. The observer is invited to embrace the urge and become the artist, revealing their own version of an existing painting as their exploration of the environment deepens, toying with the notion that misbehaving is a creative act of self discovery. 

I Just Can't Help Myself is about the sometimes inexplicable impulse to draw outside the lines, or in this case: shake antique vases and touch paintings in a classic art museum. The observer is invited to embrace the urge and become the artist, revealing their own version of an existing painting as their exploration of the environment deepens, toying with the notion that misbehaving is a creative act of self discovery.