A time to come together...in duet and share an artistic harmony between artists, inspired by an Instagram page: @Paperfashion, Creative Conversation is about loosening up and creating with others just for the fun of it.
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I met Mark Chicote 2 years ago at a dinner in Massachusetts and we quickly became friends. When i learned that he plays piano, I've kept asking him to collaborate and combine his music and my arts.
For creative duet, Mark plays an original composition accompanied by an oil painting response.
Here, you can hear and watch him play his original "Crimson Ad Infinitum" and my timelapse painting of a sunflower's life cycle.
The second edition of #CreativeConversations is collaborating with the Founder and CEO of The Creative Root, Ayo Ngozi Drayton.
Ayo and I are cohorts during Entrepreneurship For All Program (@eforallsouthcoast | @eforallhq ) summer 2019. Ayo is an artist, herbalist, and a wonder mom! She makes sustainable and organic herbal products. She also teaches people to create their own self-care herbal and botanical products. .
Ayo is making a medicine for the creative duet while my visual response is a painting of an American Goldfinch. Yay Nature! Yay Herbal! .
Support Ayo's business by following her at @ayo.herbalist and buying her products through Instagram. .
Episode 3 of #CreativeConversation is with a published poet, Sam Noel Orluk. Sam is a writer, an artist, and a proud LGBTQ+ member who shares her insights to the world of creative writing.
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She is reading her original heartfelt poetry entitled, "The Dreamer" and "The World" enunciating so much sentiment that stirs her listeners' soul. Her use of symbolism is reiterated in my charcoal drawing that, for me, represents "hopeless romance" and appreciation to "platonic love."
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Sam's poem, "Witch's Delight!" was featured in Gravitas, a collection meritocratic poetry by Andrew Lafleche.
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The purpose of Creative Conversation is to bring creatives from different disciplines to share an artistic harmony in times of crisis. Let us use this time to create more works and re-calibrate our art practice.
(Collaborator) Dhonna May's Artist Statement:
When Bhen asked me if i can film while solving a mathematical equation, i immediately thought oh the heat equation since i remembered it being very useful... then i realized i’ve already forgotten what useful formula was derived from it and tbh the actual heat equation so i had to retire that idea and regroup..hmmm what math concept would go with Bhen’s artistic content? then i remembered, back in high-school there was this one math competition that i wanted to join because it looked fun and you got to be creative.. it was Modulo art, where math meets art or art meets math...hmm eh it’s symmetric
So I started looking into modulo art online, but lo and behold there isn’t really much explanation of it out there and i believe modulo art competition is only done in the philippines, so i’ll try my best to explain it. So essentially modulo art’s concept comes from modular arithmetic (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic ) which is system of counting up to a value which is called a modulus (can be any positive integer) then restarting the count again. A simple example is the 12 hour clock, it is modulus 12 since the highest number you count to is 12 then once it’s after 12 you go back to one. So if you add 6 hours to 9pm if you look at the clock, it gets you to 3 and not 15 this is because the clock is mod12 the highest you can count is 12 then it resets it’s counting. So 15-12=3 so that’s why 9pm + 6 hours is 3am.. in this particular art we are using mod4 starting with 0 so you will have 0,1,2,3 which will be used as legends (each integer will be assigned a design. Without getting into the nitty-gritty of Modulo art competition rules and explanation, the artwork is composed of the said legends mod4 {0,1,2,3} and their respective designs, it will then use either multiplication or addition which will be shown in a 4 by 4 matrix that can be a latin/grid square, converging segment, standard kaleidoscope,circular kaleidoscope, and residue kaleidoscope (see here for illustrations and source https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/nivilosujer/modulo-art-computerbased-design )which will represent the 1st quadrant of the full design grid (full design is 4 quadrants). the design of the first quadrant will then be carried over to the next quadrants by either repeating, rotating or reflecting (see here for illustrations and source https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/nivilosujer/modulo-art-computerbased-design ) students competing in math meets for modulo art are graded by their artistry and creativity (50%), colour harmony (35%), and neatness(15%) (sample modulo art competition form is here: https://www.pdffiller.com/409922093--modulo-art-) The number of design outcome for this type of art is countless, and it’s mind blowing to think about.
With that said, i definitely underestimated the complexity of this art, so i am doing the basic latin/square grid, using addition to generate the first quadrant’s design, and will be reflecting this pattern as i go along each quadrant. It was time consuming but very very satisfying. Inspiration for this was Bhen’s been painting, as bees need flowers and flowers need bees (still, symmetric) and a touch of dolce and gabanna.