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Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020

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Back to Basics program / JUNE 2022<br />

Lily Evelyn Taylor<br />

UK<br />

lilyevelyn.co.uk<br />

About<br />

Primarily working with film and installation, my work explores<br />

the intimate relationships people create to a place or a<br />

moment in time. I am fascinated with nature and how the<br />

earth talks to itself, specifically through movement and I<br />

find that through film I am able to translate this movement<br />

into a new visual language. Using memory as a guide for<br />

communication, I use themes of fragmentation, exaggeration<br />

and inaccuracy to manipulate perspectives by adopting<br />

slow cinema as an instrument to create space for thought.<br />

A sincere account of a moment that may have never existed.<br />

Idling in Nature<br />

I arrived at <strong>Arteles</strong> with an extremely open mind on where<br />

the month would lead me. It scared me to have no plan, yet I<br />

understood the importance of the process. I took immediate<br />

inspiration from my surroundings. June felt like a leap from<br />

spring to summer and with every walk through the fields<br />

and forests there was something new in bloom. Everything<br />

changed as seamlessly as breathing, fascinated by natures<br />

pace of change I found myself taking the same routes daily<br />

to observe every even the smallest of shifts in scenery. With<br />

the repetition of my own movement came repetition in my<br />

work as I began to explore through printmaking, in both lino<br />

and with found objects I filled up pages with similar prints,<br />

only differing in the details caused through pressure and the<br />

amount of ink I used. The rhythmic motion of printmaking<br />

provided me with mental clarity and an unspeakable calm.<br />

Alongside my prints I explored ideas through moving image<br />

and merged poetry with film. Slowness became a theme<br />

throughout as I worked to capture the dreamy qualities of an<br />

idle landscape. Disconnecting from the outside world gave<br />

me space to reflect and be present, a chance to understand<br />

what I was actually distracting myself from. Overall it was<br />

an incredible experience shared with truly inspiring people,<br />

filled with lots of laughing, cooking and exploring!

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