The result was both performative and experiemental, with drawings, films and other objects presented during a two week exhibition in August 2025.
For one week we focused on the impact of isolation on the creative process through the formation of personal “islands” in the Vessel space. We were inspired by the tension between dependence and independence inherent in the island condition as well as by the various materials that emerge to bridge land masses (language and culture, ecology, trade) in a region such as the Argo Saronic gulf.
Large curtains of drawing paper with gaps around the working tables separated the stations of each of us, offering only glimpses of the feet, hands and tools of the other. In the absence of sight and speech, natural attempts to connect with the felt other had to find new form. Certain gestures and tendencies arose such as trying to lure the other, making offerings to the other, asserting presence in the negotiated space of the other, as well as a trade of materials and technology and a sort of romantic desire to capture the other’s image. These last two tendencies involved the use of the camera.
Since this was primarily a process piece, we were interested in pointing the camera at the working process itself and developing the film in house as a group. This was our time for collaboration towards a shared product at the end of the working day. Keeping in spirit with the ecological and experimental ethos of Vessel, we concocted various organic developer recipes using coffee, seaweed, vitamin c and soda to develop both images and film.
Some of these images were then reabsorbed through analog means in slides or digital means using green screen video.
The result is a blended offering of objects, paintings and drawings, digital and analog media which chronicle themes of our individual work as well as our experience in residence.