{"id":4549,"date":"2021-02-03T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fccsartwork\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:01:30","slug":"relief-push-woe-ryb-by-conner-charlesworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fccsartwork\/2021\/02\/03\/relief-push-woe-ryb-by-conner-charlesworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief, Push, Woe (RYB) by Connor Charlesworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relief, Push, Woe (RYB)<\/strong><\/em> is a site specific assemblage of various materials including paintings, a wall drawing, astroturf, recycled cutouts of paintings, and text.\u00a0<\/span>The phenomenological nature of this work relies on language as a point of entry. During the Covid-19 isolation periods I kept a log of words to describe how I felt during this time. This associative word play was used as a jumping off for constructing digital collages which serve as the reference for the three paintings. I wanted to keep them urgent, focused, and shallow in their sense of depth. Viewers are denied access beyond a flat plane of colour.\u00a0The paintings sit on top of a hand drawn graphite and ink wall treatment. An image suggestive of broken glass is both a nod to the architecture of the window\u00a0space, and a gesture of violence drawn from recent images of civil unrest.\u00a0On the floor in front of the wall is a scattering of various things; painted cutouts of flowers, a smiley face, a note from a recent sketchbook, and woven flowers bought as souvenirs from Mexico. They sit on top of an oval piece of artificial turf. For me, these objects and motifs communicate a kind of empathy and longing for a more effervescent time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Connor is a BFA graduate from UBC Okanagan campus who completed his MFA at the University of Victoria in 2018.<\/p>\n