“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” -- Susan Sontag
In these days of uncertainty, our sense of time and reality has morphed into now all-too-familiar phrasings: “the longest March ever”, “last winter ten years ago”, “the same day (x) months later”, and so on. Looking back on anything before this year can sometimes feel like peering into an alternate dimension; where folks could actually crowd together, embrace without worry, and sanitizer wasn’t comparable to gold. Pictures from this time will likely go without a time signature, as the masks are evidence enough.
This workshop will attempt to foster subversive artifacts to this bleak narrative, constructed of pauses great and small throughout our isolated days. We will write/create/enact through and around pictures and videos, in order to tie together a glimpse of contentment. At its simplest, we will be conducting photo and video documentation. In reality, we will orchestrate soundscapes, extract necessary tranquility, and maybe even conjure up some fantastic writing while we’re at it.
In this workshop, we will:
- record, document, preserve, and treasure the infinite(simal) moments
- craft personal galleries of the observed
- ponder what it means to reflect, respond, and remember
- welcome alternatives and question “negative” space
Materials:
- Camera and basic editing software (phone will work, but if you have a film or DSLR camera, could lend for some interesting detours)
- Collection of reflective and transparent objects
- Drawing utensils
- Recommended: good walking shoes, proper outer layers, decent speakers
- Any other art mediums you'd like to work with.