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Shae Nadine nom de guerre SubtleFlux
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 9 kilometers in length. The corals for the ‘Carbon Footprints’ reef