PARALLELING
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Paralleling, a community based art experience and installation, invited strangers to gather together in the same space, all while exploring their individual mental solitudes. Offering multiple stations with different materials, participants experienced the reflective, meditative, and simple, playful nature of mark making. The materials filled with marks by participants were assembled into an intuitive, abstract installation, weaving themes of collective storytelling, inclusivity, and belonging.
Musician Ben Dexter Cooley, of St.Silva, debuted a self-created system - Chromallel - that read color and translated it to assigned sounds. As the installation evolved and grew, a live web cam captured the process in real time, reading the amounts of various colors, and producing ambient sounds in response. This artistic collaboration provided another layer of paralleling - visual art and music co-existing in tandem.
Listen to the final audio collages here.
The Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury Vermont