[x] A diffraction of past/stability and present/dynamism on Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen

[Laura Lee Coles]

Congrats Ben.  They look great!

Wish I could see the work while it is displayed on the screens!

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.

So far it is good, but difficult to be away from family and friends.

I'm growing a fabulous tea called Mamaki seen in the photo here.

Best for your residency. Looking forward to hearing/seeing the work.

Laura Lee

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On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 10:53 AM B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:

> Hello All!
>
> Apologies if some of you received this message twice! I'm writing to
> announce a new public artwork showing from *December 17th to 26th every
> day from 9am to 4pm on the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen*. This
> work is a commission by Grunt Gallery and there will also be a short
> exhibition concluding my residency at Grunt Gallery from January 6th to
> 22nd; also keep an eye out for the announcement of my artist talk. I
> hope you get a chance to see this 7.5 hour machine learning generated
> site-specific artwork on the West side of Kingsway between 10th and
> Broadway.
>
> *A diffraction of past/stability and present/dynamism*
>
> On the wet dark dreary days, do we relish in the greens and the smell of
> rain, or do we retreat into imagined days of warmer pasts? The built and
> natural worlds around us are constantly evolving and transforming. While
> attending to the changes from moment to moment can we see the boundary
> between this moment and our past or future? Are we even in the present,
> or are we immersed in our predictions and simulations, always using
> samples of the present to validate imagined pasts and futures? These are
> some of the questions that are asked through this work. “A diffraction
> of past/stability and present/dynamism” is a study of time and movement
> at the MPCAS. Source footage was shot from the MPCAS during the long
> days of summer capturing the dynamism and colour of the site. The
> footage archives a window in time, documenting the movement of plants,
> clouds and animate life as humans and non-humans go along with our
> routines.
>
> The structure of the work is determined by an analysis of human /
> non-human and natural / artificial movements, resulting in a continuum
> of dynamism to stillness. Areas of stillness diffuse into soft gradients
> of colour that undulate over time; these gradients are demarcated by the
> strong edges and readability of areas of stillness. Augmenting this
> structure are the discontinuities of the present moment that interrupt
> the smoothness and consistency of the composition. Through this trace of
> the present the viewer may pick out the shape of cars and people moving
> through the frame, but this subtlety is overwhelmed by drastic changes
> in colour. The cloud-like fields that advance and retreat from frame to
> frame are determined by colour values of the present where the source is
> almost entirely veiled in abstraction. A taxi-cab entering the frame
> does not appear yellow, and yet washes the image in yellow. A cloud
> blowing over is barely noticeable, but saturates the image in teal.
> Through these waves of colour and luminosity the viewer may realize this
> bright summer ‘present’ is in fact another moment of the past; a sample
> of the summer collected by a machine and reconstructed as an imagined
> past and present.
>
> --
> B. Bogart, PhD
> they/them
> www.ekran.org
>
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-- 

Laura Lee Coles, MA
Interdisciplinary Artist
Arts-based Researcher, Curator & Writer
Founder and Project Specialist LocoMotoArt Collective & IMAPON

Member:  Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars
Member:  Community Scholars
Member:  Creative Cities
Member:  Arts BC

Artist site:
http://lauraleecoles.weebly.com

Organization sites:
https://www.imapon.org/
Blog:http://locomotoart.weebly.com/

Art Residency Partnership:
http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/loco-moto-art-collective.aspx
http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/field-house-studio-residencies-in-parks.aspx

A video of the exhibition LocoMotoArt@ Queen Elizabeth Park
http://vimeo.com/71615795

I acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded traditional territories
of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh
(Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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.
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