<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Congrats Ben. They look great!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Wish I could see the work while it is displayed on the screens! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">I moved away from Vancouver/Canada to ride out Covid. I'm in Hawaii (we have property here) where I can isolate myself in the natural environment and have limited contact with people.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">So far it is good, but difficult to be away from family and friends. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">I'm growing a fabulous tea called Mamaki seen in the photo here. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Best for your residency. Looking forward to hearing/seeing the work.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">Laura Lee</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><img src="cid:ii_kxdr6era0" alt="IMG_7360.jpeg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="540" height="405"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 10:53 AM B. Bogart <<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org">ben@ekran.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello All!<br>
<br>
Apologies if some of you received this message twice! I'm writing to <br>
announce a new public artwork showing from *December 17th to 26th every <br>
day from 9am to 4pm on the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen*. This <br>
work is a commission by Grunt Gallery and there will also be a short <br>
exhibition concluding my residency at Grunt Gallery from January 6th to <br>
22nd; also keep an eye out for the announcement of my artist talk. I <br>
hope you get a chance to see this 7.5 hour machine learning generated <br>
site-specific artwork on the West side of Kingsway between 10th and <br>
Broadway.<br>
<br>
*A diffraction of past/stability and present/dynamism*<br>
<br>
On the wet dark dreary days, do we relish in the greens and the smell of <br>
rain, or do we retreat into imagined days of warmer pasts? The built and <br>
natural worlds around us are constantly evolving and transforming. While <br>
attending to the changes from moment to moment can we see the boundary <br>
between this moment and our past or future? Are we even in the present, <br>
or are we immersed in our predictions and simulations, always using <br>
samples of the present to validate imagined pasts and futures? These are <br>
some of the questions that are asked through this work. “A diffraction <br>
of past/stability and present/dynamism” is a study of time and movement <br>
at the MPCAS. Source footage was shot from the MPCAS during the long <br>
days of summer capturing the dynamism and colour of the site. The <br>
footage archives a window in time, documenting the movement of plants, <br>
clouds and animate life as humans and non-humans go along with our routines.<br>
<br>
The structure of the work is determined by an analysis of human / <br>
non-human and natural / artificial movements, resulting in a continuum <br>
of dynamism to stillness. Areas of stillness diffuse into soft gradients <br>
of colour that undulate over time; these gradients are demarcated by the <br>
strong edges and readability of areas of stillness. Augmenting this <br>
structure are the discontinuities of the present moment that interrupt <br>
the smoothness and consistency of the composition. Through this trace of <br>
the present the viewer may pick out the shape of cars and people moving <br>
through the frame, but this subtlety is overwhelmed by drastic changes <br>
in colour. The cloud-like fields that advance and retreat from frame to <br>
frame are determined by colour values of the present where the source is <br>
almost entirely veiled in abstraction. A taxi-cab entering the frame <br>
does not appear yellow, and yet washes the image in yellow. A cloud <br>
blowing over is barely noticeable, but saturates the image in teal. <br>
Through these waves of colour and luminosity the viewer may realize this <br>
bright summer ‘present’ is in fact another moment of the past; a sample <br>
of the summer collected by a machine and reconstructed as an imagined <br>
past and present.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
B. Bogart, PhD<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><br>Laura Lee Coles, MA<br></div>Interdisciplinary Artist<br></div>Arts-based Researcher, Curator & Writer<br></div>Founder and Project Specialist LocoMotoArt Collective & IMAPON</div><div><br></div><div>Member: Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars</div><div>Member: Community Scholars</div><div>Member: Creative Cities</div><div>Member: Arts BC<br><br></div><div>Artist site: <br><a href="http://lauraleecoles.weebly.com" target="_blank">http://lauraleecoles.weebly.com</a><br><br></div><div>Organization sites:<br></div><div><a href="https://www.imapon.org/" target="_blank">https://www.imapon.org/</a><br></div>Blog:<a href="http://locomotoart.weebly.com/" target="_blank">http://locomotoart.weebly.com/</a><br><br></div><div>Art Residency Partnership:</div><a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/loco-moto-art-collective.aspx" target="_blank">http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/loco-moto-art-collective.aspx</a><br><a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/field-house-studio-residencies-in-parks.aspx" target="_blank">http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/field-house-studio-residencies-in-parks.aspx</a><br><br></div>A video of the exhibition LocoMotoArt@ Queen Elizabeth Park<br><span style="font-size:10pt"> <a href="http://vimeo.com/71615795" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/71615795</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt">I acknowledge that I live and work on the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><span style="font-family:Constantia,"Hoefler Text",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">uncede</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Constantia,"Hoefler Text",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">d</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9pt"> traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. </span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12px">I also acknowledge that I live on the A'ina of the Hawai'ian people, which was taken by an armed coup, forcing the abdication the legal and legitimate sovereign Queen Lili'uokalani, thus ending the Ali'i of Kamehameha the Great by handing all of the islands over to the government of the United States.</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font><br><br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>