ISSUE 2
Isolation
Flora Form
BY JULIA PARRIS
This still life series is an exploration on a range of themes including: isolation, grief, death and perseverance. I examine contrasts between synthetic and organic materials, spatial coexistence, and explore ideas around ecological sustainability. Now more than 6 weeks in lockdown, the series has begun to reflect our current pandemic, uncovering collective hope, and fear for an unknown future.
My materials are limited to my neighborhood food market in Brooklyn I visit once a week. They include common packaging from produce and food items, building materials, and bouquets of flowers. Each composition takes inspiration from contemporary sculpture and painting, and are created in my home studio while in isolation.
Online Shopping
BY MEIKO ARQUILLOS
When I was a child, I thought everything was going to be done on computers in near future including grocery shopping. (It probably looked like this in my mind.) Now that everything IS done on computers, I am watching my daughter getting her education over on Zoom and feeling very very conflicted.
@meikophoto
Pieces of a Pandemic
BY JUSTIN GAAR
Ceramic Moods
BY INGMAR CHEN
I'm based in Brooklyn, NY. This was created a few days ago at home on my desk out of boredom and discovery of a spouted onion in the pantry.
Photo: Ingmar Chen @ingmachen
Styling: Christina Kim @cupofteena
Ceramics: Hansol Jung
Shadows
BY ALLISON RITCHIE
I am a prop stylist, so being able to play around and try to make something pretty felt incredibly therapeutic - especially on a day when the light was so nice!
Lonely Island
BY KATIE LADD
@regularkatie
Daily Fiber
BY SARAH SULLIVAN
I’m a fiber artist and painter and work from home already, but I can definitely feel a shift in my brain during this current health situation. Everything here was made in the last few weeks in isolation.
@sullystring
Banana Splatch
BY MAYBELLE MULLENDORE
“Knock knock!
Who’s there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Orange — orange you glad to meet me?”
Happiness Pie
BY KATIE ROSEFF
Outside In
BY LEUWAM TESFAI
Stoic Covid
ALEX CARANTZA
This statue is in front of the Florida yacht club, where they had to-go pick up. Jacksonville!
PART II
The woman on St. Johns Avenue.
Mark Side of the Doon
BY NIKI FORD
An Eerie Calmness
BY WALLIS MILLAR-BLANCHAER
In early March, my parents arrived in Palm Springs just as the news about Corona Virus was beginning to peak. They were planning to stay for a month, splitting their time between the desert and LA to visit my brother and me.
It was their first time staying in PS, and they’d rented a fellow Snowbird friend’s condo, excited to escape the isolating cold of winter in Toronto. I had driven in from LA to stay with them for a week and show them all the hidden treasures I had come to know in the desert oasis since moving to LA.
When I arrived, I couldn’t shake a spooky feeling in the air and the wall to wall carpeting. I was intrigued by my parents' description of the rental compound as a place where “80’s furniture came to die.” I strolled the grounds in wonderment, feeling like we were plopped on a Cronenberg set anticipating an eery twin to appear at any moment.
Quickly it became clear that their visit was going to end abruptly as Canadians were urged to return home. Stores started adjusting their hours, Snowbirds took flights back east, and we savored our last moments together over morning coffee and poolside dips.
Looking back on these photos only a few weeks later, I see a complex mix of looming uneasiness, sprinkled with moments of appreciation for the little things, that I still feel today.
Gratitude for a bowl of fresh fruit, an intriguing shadow, the fresh air that lingers after rainfall, getting lost in a book, a ripe rosebud.
There is a tranquility in the small details that I’m pinching myself to remember are worth savoring. A reminder that the weariness and the stillness alike too shall pass.
Tiger Tail
AMBER CANTERBURY
I took iPhone photos of 80s-era old science and technology encyclopedias (to make this) weird collage. Themes include isolation, bread, biology and tigers - sorta the Zeitgeist of the time.
Macro Magic
BY ANDRIA LO
I shoot professionally, but since that's put on pause, I've been focusing on the macro lately and shooting subjects I find in my yard or around the block when I walk my dogs.
Quarantine Scene
BY DAN FORBES
Isoactive
BY ELIZABETH WEINBERG
When I was a kid I wanted to be a cartoonist when I grew up. I ended up veering toward photography, but my love for drawing never went away. Getting Procreate on my iPad last year was a game changer. Now that photo shoots aren’t happening, I‘ve found myself doodling to flex that drawing muscle again. I’ve started illustrating things I’m doing in self-isolation that I never do in “normal” life (there are a lot of things).
@elizabethrweinberg
PART II
That Floral Feeling
BY CLARA GOLDFARB
When the shelter-at-home orders began, I had to instantly downshift from daily work activities but did not know where to place that energy. I found myself turning small pleasures, like collaging and observing nature, into tasks on my to-do list. These small projects helped me transition into a more accepting space around the quarantine.
@claragoldfarbdotcom
PART II
“What a waste, what a crime to wreck a world so abundantly full of different kinds of flowers.” Olivia Laing
Don’t Dwell
BY GABRIELA COBAR
I often feel like I’m supposed to be productive when I have free time and right now time feels endless. It’s been helpful making these little reminders because it’s not free time - we’re in a global crisis. While I love working and constantly being immersed in creative processes, I’ve allowed myself to slow down, to sit alone with my thoughts and write more often these days. It’s ok to slow down, which seems silly to say but I hope it’s a little helpful to hear.
PART II
Earth Angel
BY JACQUI JACQUES
A sensory installation made with botanically dyed silks
Photo: Nick Delmar
Silks & installation: Earthly
@earthly____
Falling Down
BY LIV SNOWDEN
I created some minimalist still life pieces using foraged flowers from my garden and plastic packaging from the home.
Zoom In, Zone Out
BY JACQUELINE FROLE
This is from my "Jackieland" series, a bizarro world of colorful, surreal paper mache scenes and videos.
It seems (fitting since) we are all spending a lot of time attached to screens these days.
Accidents Happen
BY JESSICA MARX
These were all made in my Brooklyn apartment during quarantine with objects that I have around. I wanted to create GIFs where things are constantly going wrong. The main theme going through my head while making these was...oops.
@jessicaemarx
Still Lives
BY MAYA LINHARES-MARX
This is a still life I put together in my garden using props from my home studio and bits foraged from my garden. Using natural light and my iPhone. Created in 30 mins when my 3 year old isn't climbing on me and sat in front of the child minder (aka TV).
A little rushed but cathartic.
Drawing Conclusions
BY PHILIP TAYLOR
Many of the greatest artists of the past and present have sought out isolation to create thought-provoking and self-exploratory works of art. These efforts were--more often than not--by choice. But even during our unelected situation, stuck within our habitude, we have acquired a small taste of what it's like to be a truly tormented--but ultimately great artist. Art is a pastiche of influence funneled through self-expression that will eventually lead us to finding out who we really are.
Red Day Ballet
Spilling the Tea
A Ghost Story
BY ALIX MCALPINE & GABE GONZALEZ
Staying in isolation these past few weeks has brought along quite a few surprises - one of which has been the softening of our grumpy old rescue dog Ghost. Our added time together has made us a pack
more than ever, and since watching his every move helps pass the time, it was only natural that we picked that as our topic for the project. He’s our quar star!
Fin.
Cherry Blossom Girl
BY MAUREEN MCCLOSKEY
Here’s a shot of my dining room with a giant cherry tree clipping arrangement as a centerpiece. I buy fresh flowers for my home almost weekly. Since the flower markets are closed, I have been bringing my clippers with me on my daily walk through my neighborhood. It's one small creative project that brings me a lot of joy.
Corona Camouflage
BY EMILY RODRIGUES
@itsjustataste
PART II
I even miss Nermal.
Mellow Yellow
BY ARIELLE CASALE
The power of nostalgia in strange and uncertain times
@ariellecasale
Isolation Beach
BY JOLEEN ZUBEK
Life in Plastic it’s Fantastic
BY MATHIEU HUBERT
Symphony in Blue
BY MELISSA CRIPE
@melissacripe
Dance by the Light of the Moon
BY LAURA GREEN
@seaofleaves
Watercolor Dreams
BY AMY TAYLOR
@amsies
