This virtual exhibition is the cynical conflicting conversation between the digital sphere and what we know as the natural world. Technology has been advancing and developing and allowed accessibility and new creative mediums; a realm of new possibilities. However, now that COVID has almost forced us into this digital space, we find oursleves in a new revolt. Inspiration feels bleak, the memories of closely knit in-person critiques and studios remain as part of our deepest desires. And though in this year of isolation and digital opportunity we have grown to appreciate the abilities we have with our technological developments, we are tired. In this exhibition, we will bring life to the strange conversation between what will be referred to as the ‘Natural Elite’ and the strong usage of digital effect. What backstitch, conflicting, pulsing discussion can we form from the strange mashup that is uninspired inspiration found in the pockets of nature. The exhibition will have tellings of a cuckoo bird, whose song is art only to itself. It is untouched by digitalism even if we attempt to capture it for ourselves, it can never feel captured. We will hear poetry from AI, formed from generated language about the algorithm of the societal world. To write about a human civilization which we have burrowed into the earth to create, from the eyes of a screen created by the society itself. Finally, a piece from a dear friend; Esther. Her encouragement and fascination in myself and how I view our physical world has been a point of inspiration, as I am no longer in the same space to feel engulfed in art and what I love, the colors feel to have faded around me. She is a burst of color, of life and greenery and music and sound that move like a river. But she lives in PEI. And the digital view of her still inspires me. (this will take the form of a painting, which will then be transformed, losing part of itself within a digital glitching of her essence.) Still strong, but not the whole picture.
eter.pntg, 17 x 20, oil on canvas