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is a first generation Canadian interdisciplinary social practice artist who leverages bio-scientific techniques with more traditional artistic processes that together bear witness to the fragile nature of our relationship with the environment and our symbiotic interdependence. Avoiding a clinical, matter-of-fact application of bio/sci arts, they rely on a strategy of playfulness and beauty to disguise their activism, to disarm, to increase the susceptibility to messaging that penetrates ingrained beliefs and defense mechanisms. SubtleFlux’s research based practice draws inspiration from historical naturalists, humanists, and Eastern philosophies. Through sculptural works, immersive and experiential installations, printmaking, and other two-dimensional mediums, they explore our role in the world and more specifically the relationship between the awareness of our oneness and antithetical feelings of intimacy/universality, healing/loss, epiphany/dread, accountability/apathy, and humanity/nature. The primary motivation for SubtleFlux’s work lies in the profound oneness and interdependence of all things, best articulated in the construct of ‘interbeing’ by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. From neurons to nebulae, interference patterns on water, in sand, the clouds – all are connected by a single thread, a balanced equation. One pull at this thread unravels all. It is this tension between connectedness and interdependence that fuels their creative mantle.
change is more than a metaphor.
Subtle Flux
Indra’s Net, as pictured, was 1.5 kilometers of continuous 100% cotton thread, at her base is the germination of the ‘Carbon Footprints’ series of blackened corals choking on sedimentary silt. Both are ongoing projects, presented together as ‘Symbiosis’. Indra’s Net is presently more than 7.5 kilometers in length. The corals for the ‘Carbon Footprints’ re
into the MicroVerse
SubtleFlux || Shae Nadine
in collaboration with
Skye (Xinyi) Gao, production design
Cast
Astrangia Poculata
(North Star Coral)
Water Bear Tardigrade
Initially presented in 2023 as Artists in Residence
BioArts Lab - SVA - New York City
‘into the MicroVerse — Tenebrous Tomes’ is a short microscopy film that focuses on a leaf of Egeria Densa (an aquatic plant) where chloroplasts zip around in the action of cyclosis, a water bear Tardigrade wanders into our view, and the single celled organism, Stentor Polymorphous twirls about — offering a glimpse into the unseen and remarkable MicroVerse of delicate microorganisms, cautioning voyeurs that our future follows the fate of these early sentinels of environmental decline. This video was created in 2024, this and an altered aspect ratio version appeared in the public art exhibition
B l i n k 2.0 in downtown Chicago from March — June 2024.
In this video work, imaged through a stereo microscope, we bear witness to an ethically sourced for science and newly hatched baby squid’s first minutes. The squid's body is covered in chromatophores, organs embedded in their skin which shift and change colour and shape constantly as they seek to blend into their environment. Diverging from their ancestors over 400 million years ago, we know from molecular findings, coleoid cephalopods have been present since the early Devonian period. They are chameleons of the sea, they adapt and adjust through electrical activity that triggers these nerves to put themselves in the best position for survival. Audio is of the artist playing a gong with a flumie friction mallet which echoes ethereal sounds of whales and sea-life.
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