Reflection and Response.
Samuel Bostick
the LIFESTYLE’s role is to create collective space for active Reflection and Response through the arts. This space is built around dialogue, expression, collaboration, and artistic (ex)change involving international craftspeople and their realities. The Porch Swing series opens up a Reflection and Response residency where we feature a Collective member’s ongoing project through weekly installations.
Contours VI: Window.
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This past Friday, August 31 was the (official) ONE YEAR mark for the LIFESTYLE: Reflection and Response! From Archival posts twice a week, to the Feature Series, to Throwback December, to Snapshots from the Collective, to Talk of the Town, to the Patchwork project, to The Porch Swing, to Events from the Collective, to the Artist Of The Week Twitter-series, to Original Mondays, to the production of Shake This Maze Editions I and II, to Reflection and Response: The Zine, Volume I, its been a powerful experience working with the Collective to create this space. The foundation has been built. Thank you all for the support and participation throughout this past year. We’re excited to move forward into Year 2!
For this celebratory occasion, we’d also like to send shout-outs to the following Collective members for their memorable “first” contributions in getting the LIFESTYLE project off the ground last year:
Thanks y’all!
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Contours V: Layers. A blind contour “cross-section” of the city, looking at how the outlines of plants, streets, cars, street lamps, and buildings interact.
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The third installment in the Contours series, West. Lamps over the Williamsburg Bridge.
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Houston is the second installation in my blind contour drawing series that jumped off last week. Looking East from the intersection of Houston & Greene in New York City.
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Reflection and Response: The Zine, Volume I is a project we have been working on for the past couple months. This collection of thought, craft, and experience is rooted in the processes of Reflection and Response through the artS. We decided to compile many of the installations from the first 9 months of our Feature series into a pressable format in order to fully appreciate and expand the timeless dialogue that these artists have engaged in. the LIFESTYLE collective presents this Volume with hopes of building further dialogue, collaboration, action, and artistic exchange locally and globally.
A true thank you to the following nine contributors for bringing their powerful and inspiring work to the collective:
The Zine is available for FREE.
In order to grab a copy:
– Directly from Peter in Leon, España or from Vicken in New York City…contact the.lifestyle.rr@gmail.com.
– Online ($5 flat shipping cost)…
Thank you for supporting the LIFESTYLE collective’s first publication!
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Lamp with Plant is the first installation in Contours, a series of drawings that I’ll be developing over the next several weeks. This series is based on methods of blind contour drawing, which involves drawing contours, or outlines, of forms while looking at subjects, without looking down at the paper or lifting pen from paper. Being “blind” to the drawing process essentially breaks the connection between seeing and drawing and leaves them physically isolated from each other. This makes it necessary to attempt to re-create that connection by focusing on seeing as if you were drawing, and then drawing that vision. Blind contour is often used simply as practice to strengthen the eye/hand connection, but I find the resulting drawings very truthful in their structure, layout, and irregularities. Contours will show my Reflection and Response interactions with various people, places, and things through focused and “blind” studies.
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Reflection and Response: The Zine, Volume I is a project we have been working on for the past couple months. This collection of thought, craft, and experience is rooted in the processes of Reflection and Response through the artS. We decided to compile many of the installations from the first 9 months of our Feature series into a pressable format in order to fully appreciate and expand the timeless dialogue that these artists have engaged in. the LIFESTYLE collective presents this Volume with hopes of building further dialogue, collaboration, action, and artistic exchange locally and globally.
Thank you all for your continued support and lookout for the official release coming up soon! The Zines will be available for FREE distribution anywhere.
Reflection and Response.
P & V
It’s been a long time comin, but today marks the release of our Shake This Maze Tools of the Trade VIDEO!! With this project we have taken our Patchwork audio-visual collaboration approach and applied it to itself.
The video content was filmed throughout the process of handcrafting the album cases for Shake This Maze. This documents the stages of cutting, stenciling, writing, folding, gluing, and packaging that went into bringing the 100 physical copies of STM to life.
Meanwhile, about a month ago, P brought out a couple of creative remixes that he based off of various tracks from the album. One of these remixes appears in the soundtrack of the video, along with a few other cuts from the album.
From the Leon studio to the Brooklyn workbench, from music to art, the Tools of the Trade Video sees the Patchwork process double down on itself and spin out through film.
This is a LIFESTYLE studios production.
Shake This Maze: Tools of the Trade from the LIFESTYLE on Vimeo.
Here’s an additional link for YouTube.
Much love to yall for the support!
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