SNAPPING TO THE PAUSE : Pixels to Paper
City Library Gallery 7th July 2022 - 31 July 2
With the arrival of Covid a “Great Pause” descended upon Melbourne as we avoided human touch for fear of a deadly viral infection. We became accustomed to contact-less, online interactions. This body of work focuses on the weirdness of how an unseen threat forced us to ‘unsee’ one another and dwell in a digital world, avoiding touching anyone or anything.
Caution/ Fragile
All works A5. Gouache on paper.
Lockdown Zines
All zines A5 printed on home photocopier. Click on thumbnail to view.
Looking InwardsLooking Outwards Looking In. Lockdown 4 Extension snaps.
The Flight Path of the Legless Pink Flamingo.
Snaps of public phonebooks within 2 ks of my house over Coivid
Binge Eating whilst Binge Watching over Snap Lockdown 6
Gnomes. A hard hitting expose into garden gnomes.
Gnarly trees near me. Lockdown 2.
Snapping to the Pause
Floor to ceiling photographic roll.
Collaboration with Mark Walsh
For much of 2020 Ryan and Walsh communicated via an online photo sharing app as Ryan found herself locked into Melbourne and Walsh found himself locked out, marooned in Queensland. Living in a contact-less, digital world was weird and only highlighted the basic human need for touch.
Snapping to the Pause drags down from the data storing clouds a collage of conversations and images Janita Ryan and Mark Walsh shared during the 2020 lockdowns and state border closures. From pixels to paper, ephemeral chit chat is made real; a documentation of this time made solid, tangible, transforms their isolated digital experience into the physical. Snapping back from the Great Pause they dragged some of their virtual world into and the here and now.