My work with students in the Creative Media Major in every case centers on iteration and process. Students frequently arrive with a concept of work-flow that is more singularly focused on achieving a finished product or reaching one specific goal, rendering, or depiction. In preparing work and staging the installation for “Light in Dark Places” I curated my own works in progress, gathering them together and looking for connections which invariably became obvious. Coping with isolation and the stress of prolonged uncertainty, the therapeutic aspects of painting, specifically the satisfying obliteration of detail with a sopping roller became powerfully expressive. The certainty and boldness of panting things black became simultaneously cathartic, symbolic and connected. My concern for my own plight amidst a time of historic upheaval and trauma became a filter to frame, iterate, and process my own multimedia work—(painting, bricolage, musical compositions, video editing, and motion graphics) modeled very much after what I ask students to consider in the courses; Making Art, Integrated Studio Foundations, and Portfolio. What can you do with what you have, where you are, right now?
The Light in Dark Places multimedia exhibit has been on display beginning in April in the Champlain College Communication and Creative Media Stair Nook Gallery—and virtually below.
Here are some images from the show.
