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By Julia Keenan

 

Tender Vessels 


is a short experimental artist film. In relation to the theme of the sea – During the isolation and strange dis-connected times we find our selves in -  the internet has become the wide open ocean of this post COVID epoch, no longer able to find connectivity in a physical way we dive into the ‘on-line’ ephemeral hoping to make a connection that is tender and human.

Finding connectivity through lap top, phone and screen is the new way to reach out and touch each other – we, the vessels alone yet together in the shared experience of isolation under a liminal sky.


Keep Swimming 



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Notes for LAB Winchester School of Art - MA Contemporary Curation

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By Julia Keenan
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