{"id":781,"date":"2020-03-22T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garcialemos.me\/?page_id=781"},"modified":"2022-01-02T23:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T23:45:40","slug":"social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/garcialemos.me\/?page_id=781","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Columbia, SC – 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Notes from my drawing book about this idea)
Alejandro Garc\u00eda Lemos<\/strong>,
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Participating Artists <\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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(In alphabetical order as of January 16, 2021) <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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(Five months of isolation! + Two months trying to get back to the so-called “new normal”, two weeks after the lockdown of the Capitol Building in DC)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

  1. Valerie Aranda, Milledgeville, Georgia – USA<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  2. Mariangeles Borghini, Granada, Andalucia – Spain<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  3. Edgar Cano L\u00f3pez, Mexico, DC – Mexico<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  4. Gustavo Carvajal, Dallas, Texas – USA<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  5. Omar Castillo Torres, Ciudad de Mexico – M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  6. Juan David Cruz, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  7. Heidi Darr-Hope, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  8. Heather Dearmon, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  9. Santiago Echeverry, Tampa, Florida – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  10. Diana Farf\u00e1n, Greenville, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  11. Mar\u00eda Cecilia Galindo O\u00f1ate. Bogot\u00e1 – Colombia<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  12. Ren\u00e9 Galv\u00e1n, Durham, North Carolina, USA<\/li>
  13. Alejandro Garc\u00eda Lemos, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  14. Bonnie Goldberg, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  15. Britt Hunt, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  16. Patricia Khobzi Hoyos, Paris, France<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  17. Josh Klatt, New York City, USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  18. Lee Ann Kornegay, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  19. Daniel Lombardi, Madrid, Spain<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  20. Sammy L\u00f3pez, Columbia, SC – USA<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  21. Ed Madden, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  22. Lee Malerich, Nesses, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  23. Betsy Newman, Columbia, SC – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  24. Eliana P\u00e9rez Rayo, New York, NY – USA<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  25. Juan Guillermo P\u00e9rez, Rionegro, Antioquia – Colombia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  26. Johny Samuka Abreu, Griffin, NC – USA<\/a><\/strong><\/li>
  27. Polly Stout, Washington, DC. – USA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>
  28. Roberto Tejada, Houston, Texas, USA<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I am still accepting submissions, so if you feel that you have some work that you have been creating during COVID-19, please go ahead and send it to: alegar78@gmail.com<\/a>. Please include a short text about your project and a short bio (100 words max) Thanks! Please stay safe and healthy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Social Distancing – Our Response<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Columbia, SC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    March 20, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The outbreak of CoronaVirus and its resulting disease CoVID-19 has resulted in an unexpected chain of events around the world. The Pandemic that we all are facing today and in the coming weeks, if not months, is resulting in all kinds of feelings and memento mori<\/strong>, from isolation to boredom\u2014and in the worst case scenarios even to death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This change in pace and peace of mind has also resulted in an increased time on our hands, our minds and our bodies. The so-called “Social Distancing<\/strong>“, a concept that not long ago was alien to most of us, became our new reality. Not only that, social distancing is already the new standard that all of us are trying to understand, digest and practice with the aim to flatten the curve for the well being of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How do artists respond to Social Distancing? How does it affect our creative process? Can we use this moment of loneliness, pondering and tinkering to create and produce art?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Either painting, gardening, video, music or poetry, if you are interested in creating an artistic and all on-line response to Social Distancing, please let me know (alegar78@gmail.com<\/code>) and we will all work together in putting together an artistic response, a fresh perspective into our new reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Please send me your image(s) or file(s) including the entire information: Name, title, media, year and place of creation (feel free to add an art statement)<\/em>. I will only post them in this page as they come to me. I will also link your name to your personal website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For your information, I don’t use any social media, so no posts will go there, at least from me. Feel free to share the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Thanks and please stay safe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Curated by Alejandro Garc\u00eda Lemos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    alegar78@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    UPDATE
    June 11, 2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    It has been almost three months since we started with this project. I am impressed by the quality of the works I have been receiving and posting, and especially amazed by the connections amongst some of the works. The one commonalty of the works have been the especial interest in nature and observation. From Bonsai to fiber arts most artists have felt a connection to Mother Nature during this times of isolation and self-questioning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I finally finished with my own project: “Bird Taxonomy of Our Garden” was based solely in the increasing presence of birds around our house. Please take a look of my work within the Social Distancing section of this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Not to be a negative but it seems that the pandemic is getting worse everyday, the most concerning part is that cities and States are “opening” and there is a false impression of everything being fine. The truth is that in the United States and in particular here in South Carolina, things are getting worse, there are more people infected than ever and the number of cases only keeps increasing. We have not been successful in flattering the curve and the experts expect a second wave of the virus, if we were ever out of the first wave… Not good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We have all the time in our hands as long as we are still Social Distancing, so feel free to keep sending me more work, I will post it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I will keep y’all posted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Stay safe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Alejandro<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

    NEW UPDATE, July 30, 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n


    <\/strong>Yes, it has been more than four months since I started with the website\/blog page “Social Distance”. At the beginning the idea was simply to open a space of creativity and community building for artist-friends during these challenging times of isolation, grieving and uncertainty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


    After four months the website has been featured in  the websites of the South Carolina Arts Commission as well as in the site of NALAC (National Association for Latino Arts and Cultures), thus attracting more artists and friends with very interesting initiatives and approaches to the concept of Social Distancing and the pandemic in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


    I am proud to say that some well recognized visual artists and poets have been sending their work and I have been updating the site, making this space more interesting, intricate and at times very personal. If y’all have some free time, (and I know you do, LOL) I encourage all of you to please visit each other’s pages, make comments and continue the dialogue, after all that’s probably the most important goal of this effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


    Also, please feel free to keep sending me more material, some of you have been doing so on a regular basis, and some other artists are still thinking about their entries. Either way is great, the goal is to overcome together -as artists- this very unusual moment in history, as well as helping us maintain our practices moving and our brains busy, at least mine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n


    As you all know, we are not on the other side of the pandemic, as of today more than 150,000 people have died only in the US and the number just keeps increasing. We are all getting used to the new reality and clearly things have changed for good and most likely will never be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


    For now, just keep maintaining your Social Distancing and please stay safe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n


    Alejandro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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