Media Type
Commercial
Client
Phaneros Art
Description
Transcript:
Alex Ubatuba: Art that you can go out and see in person is especially important because we’re so used to absorbing information from this little device that is the greatest reality show in the world. Gotta unplug people out of that little device and let them actually get out and see the brushstrokes on a canvas or see the frosted finish on a piece of glass.
Ashely Foreman: It’s an event for people who love art. People are here to create and make art and share their art and share their knowledge and just be together. It’s based on artists—just art. The lineup is artists. It’s not really, at all, for one second about the music.
Alex Ubatuba: Here, it’s just like direct contact with the people you’re interested in working with, where we can all chat about ideas or figure out projects to collaborate on.
Jennifer Ingram: Go home, leaving like: “Hey, this is actually sustainable—what we’re trying to do. This is inducing the conversation that we wanna have”.
Ashely Foreman: I would describe my art as colorful, geometric, figurative, landscape, and narrative.
Brian Scott Hampton: It’s real colorful, lots of motion, expressive. It’s not necessarily a certain thing ever, really—more just pouring out feelings, I’d say, on the canvas, and they can all be just wildly different.
Sandor Bos: They’re kind of like portals into other dimensions, basically. I’m not only doing painting; I’m also doing 3D animations, virtual reality environments.
Alex Ubatuba: I like to just create this organic flow of these invertebrate-like forms to insinuate an organism of some sort. I’ve never been in such a think tank like this.
Ashely Foreman: The opportunity to be with a lot of other really talented artists—not only get to connect with them, but also get to learn from them and what their processes and materials are, and their philosophies.
Sandor Bos: Discover that—wow, there are so many, and they are like me. It’s great!
Jennifer Ingram: We’re like a community. We’re all different, we’re all misfits, we’re all looking for some situation to fit in and feel like we have something to share that’s awesome—which we do. I think that’s the main core of this whole experience for visionary artists. People just wanted a place to belong, to express themselves freely, and people saw that, and then it just kept growing.
Ashely Foreman: Art’s purpose in society was as a way of connecting to the force that sustains life. We have severed our relationship to that creative force. Artwork can help us reclaim our own voice and connection to that force.
Jennifer Ingram: We’ve spawned off a really cool way of being. People see that, they’re attracted to it, they wanna be a part of it. They could choose anything in the world to do with their time. They’re choosing to sit in this field, pick up a paintbrush, and fucking create what’s in their heart. Hey, that’s pretty awesome. I wanna be a part of it. A little cheesy, but I don’t care. It’s so cool.
Brian Scott Hampton: Seeing other people’s art and seeing that there is potential to be that or do that helped to facilitate my wanting to be this thing that I wouldn’t—without seeing it—wouldn’t have conjured up in my own mind. So now that I’m on my path further, I get to see that happening—people sharing that with me. And it’s a continual fractal process, and this is part of keeping it going.
