ART FROM THE QUARANTINE | WEEK FOUR | CONFINED BEAUTY
FRANK FRANCES
ANDREE LJUTICA
Suspension
The images attempt to observe the emotional weight of isolation, specifically the ideas of containment and of delay. Here, in our new world, time is taking on new affect. It paces itself and we're immersed in an awareness of it. Life is languid. Despite gradual "re-openings" one can't help but to extend this awareness of time to the future. In addition to this, experiences and moments which would otherwise occur are suddenly replaced by this newly mandated reality. A lack of work, a lack of contact. Friendships at a distance and nurtured virtually, this is life frozen in time, stripped of intimacy and handed back as an antiseptic pill.
Both photos in this short series deal with time and containment, using Robin as expressive subject. The first image depicts Robin, captured over facetime with a distant stare. The palette, deliberately cold and anhedonic revealing itself over time through a mold of ice. The second photo, another glance with the remaining portion of her face resiled to black.
ELVIS MAYNARD
Some say in ice
This series is as much about the end result as it is about the process. To capture the idea of confined beauty, I harvested budding flora from my neighborhood, and froze the different species into individual slabs of ice. Over the 48 hour freezing process, I agitated the molds to capture as many air bubbles, fissures, and disruption as possible. After a final freeze, I shot through these blocks of ice to capture both the beauty and the violence of these combined elements.
BRIAN BRIGANTTI
Confined Beauty
This is a series of self portraits. It was inspired by this idea of feeling trapped, lost, and constricted, but in a beautiful natural setting. The interpretation of the images is really to be made by the viewer.
While creating these, I felt a strange sense of ease. The real confinement was felt within me, as I struggled to find ways to show the sense of entrapment. The more I struggled, the more I actually felt embraced by these ancient grape vines. The way it surrounded the curves of my body and enveloped me made me feel a serene calmness. This was shot in our cherry grove, so I felt very protected in the shade from the harsh sun as well.
ROB WOODCOX
Confined Beauty (self portrait series)
Through difficult times I look for beauty. When I feel like I’m teetering on the edge of collapse, I look for the brightest things around me and I hold them close and celebrate the simplicity of just being alive. Plants, food, sunlight, music, warm blankets, these things all make me happy and remind me to be present. Fear often comes from worrying about the past or future, but the present holds endless possibility, infinite beauty.
www.robwoodcox.com | @robwoodcoxphoto
Additional crew:
Wardrobe: @arianacastellanos_
Assistance: @memylandia, @sukisphotos, @arianacastellanos_
Video: @msgouter
TREVOR HANSEN
Self Portraits / Dream Images
These images are all photos that I have taken in my neighborhood and at Prospect Park (which I live down the street from). All photographs of myself are taken in my bedroom which is an actual closet. I think this time has forced us to face our inner and outer selves and needs and wants. Much like me and the times we live in, these images represent the inner chaos and need to recreate our reality, which at times seems unliveable.
The process was all random and on impulse. They are messy and ugly and not streamlined, and at first I felt bad for not “caring” more. But I quickly realized that simply creating anything during this time period is important for the sake of being a creator.
RYAN GINTER
I wanted to play with different ideas of confined beauty. Ways in which we, as a society, have been confined through societal and familial expectation of an individual’s path through life. Contractual confinement to fulfill a duty or pay a debt. Showing marriage, which is now seen as a free choice and a celebration of love, through the lens of the confinement it so often used to be.
PAULO PLACENCIA & ANGELA ROMERO PLACENCIA
My Confined Beauty
For Angela.
www.pauloplacencia.com | @puts _ the _ lotion _ in _ the _ basket | www.angela-romero.com | @angela.placencia
BERNARD FRIGIÈRE
Bernard is a sculptor and painter who resides and works on Ile de Ré, France. The titles of these quarantine paintings are :
First row : Dans les champs (In the fields), Fleurs d’eau (Water flora), Printanier (Spring)
Second row : Dans les marais, fleurs de moutarde (In the marsh, mustard flowers), Bleuets (Corn-flowers), Coquelicots (Poppies)
