Thank you to all the studio visitors on a SoWa Sunday who graciously collaborated on this piece!  

This project was initiated without a contextual framework aside from inviting visitors to collaborate on a canvas without having to get messy and paint splattered.  The source material collaborators chose were from my old sketchbook of figurative studies for me to then execute on canvas with their choosing of scale and medium.  Note: For this project, the collaborators faces/identity are not revealed unless I had prior permission and so you may just see the backs or even just their arm/hand.

I put together a 1 minute time-lapse of some of the video clips in hopes of provoking inspiration.  Wait for the end as the final edits made by the youngest collaborators (twin 5yo girls) changed the composition completely and unified the piece!

My intentions for this collaboration is community-building through the language of art and to illustrate how we are all artists and have innate creativity - we just need to remember to tap into it:) 

Thank you again and hope you visit again soon!

xo

Kat

A turning point:

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And then twin sisters (age 5) made the final decisions:

1.  Cover the face in black

2.  Add face in white on top

Amazing!

Cedric Harper

Arnie Casavant

Rebecca Stafford

Jacquie Shiu

Joseph Ellis

Zena Nguon

Zoe and Zandria (twin girls)

Videography by Bob Masella