Amy Fill, Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, 2024-2025
Exquisite Cloud: Murmur(ation)
This work connects with the history of the Surrealist's drawing game, Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative, improvisational, playful approach to creative exploration and flow. Creating "collective sessions" allows freedom from the constraints of expectation, using the body as the metaphor.
This work uses the cloud as a metaphor for observation and participation without judgment. The practice of observing "passing thoughts" and reinforcing the universal truth of the impermanence within beauty and nature and the interconnectedness of life and death.
The sky represents vastness and freedom from external constraints, a space for reflection and ongoing change and movement. Observation through a lens of non-judgment welcomes the connection between all beings on earth and the energy of the universe.
Unity, cooperation, and mindful awareness, reflect the strength and safety within group harmony. "Generally, the basic goals of kindness revolve around protecting and helping and being nice." (Jerome W. Freeman, 2014) Similarly, the murmuration of a cloud of birds follows three rules: (1) move to the center, (2) follow your neighbor, and (3) don't collide. There is no one leader. Each bird is empowered to respond independently, with careful consideration of itself and others.
Amy Fill
Rural Cloud Museum
