{"id":1152,"date":"2024-08-12T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/?page_id=1152"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:13:35","slug":"flood-story-gerry-davies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/eco-visions\/flood-story-gerry-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Story (Gerry Davies)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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featured work from ‘Flood Story’ collection<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\"Drowned
Drowned Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
\"Drowned
Drowned Theatre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
\"Insect
Insect Deluge<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Shanty Town<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Taipei Scooters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Made with liquid graphite on Mylar, these hybrids of drawing and painting are images of speculative futures. Each depicts a scene of inundation, a drowned world in a time of climate change. The diver represents how we might return to visit our homes and their environments in a radically transformed future.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This group of ‘Flood Story’ drawings are from a long series of works which propose possible futures, futures radically affected by climate crisis. As speculative fictions, the drawings imagine glacial and polar melt are complete, seas have risen, and disrupted weather pattens have scoured the land.\u00a0 Environments are inundated, fish swim over homes, towns sink into silt, and ground once dry is now the seabed.\u00a0 In each drawing a scuba diver returns, perhaps a future archaeologist or simply someone returning to their past.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Materially the work is made with graphite dust held in a suspension of damar varnish on Mylar -a technical drafting film- its silvery cast reminiscent of a daguerreotype, part luminous, part obscure.\u00a0 And with the light and dark of the drawing the result of space left untouched they have the feel of celluloid film in negative. Is this a photograph of a dream, or a single frame from a cinematic projection, from a film yet to be screened?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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