We are delighted that Isabel Moseley has kindly given her permission for Acute Agency to adopt an image from her Brontide series as its logo.
Brontide:
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This image was produced as a meditation on space and time, and is entitled Brontide meaning the low rumbling of distant thunder. This suggests a state of inertia and the image acts as a map or a plan as it lies in wait of flux.
Artist’s Statement:
“I have always been interested in ideas of space and time and this theme often emerges in my work. Whilst this is a slightly vague and abstruse concept, it is one that has gripped me for many years and it is most definitely the uncertain, ungraspable qualities of this concept that I find so fascinating.
The subjects I choose to explore are usually unexplainable or perhaps even invisible; a kin to phenomenon. For example weather conditions, the chemical make up of certain materials or even natural occurrences such as sunrise and sunset.
I work with materials such as air, light, paper and wood that reflect the ephemeral nature of these themes. Most recently the reflection and refraction of light is what interests me.”
Why we like Brontide so much:
Isabel’s Brontide drawings instantly sprung to mind when we were thinking about an image to associate with Acute Agency. It brilliantly displays what we would most like Acute Agency to stand for: the power of networks. It’s a pleasure to use a piece of artwork from a dear friend, who is super talented and who also believes in the importance of collaboration and community.Â
For us, the patterns emerging within the Brontide drawings summarise the importance of everyday people organising themselves to create meaningful change. While the squares alone are of little consequence, where their relationships and slight movements are made visible the picture becomes altogether different.
We also love the symbolism of this image’s resemblance to the digital tracking device, the QR code, despite having been carefully constructed by Isabel using ruler and pencil. For us, this echoes the ‘cyborg’ relationship we have with ICTs. There’s no power inherent to online media, good or bad, but we can flesh out the digital world’s binary skeleton; broadening our networks and the flow of information, and in so doing enhancing our agency, our ability to change things.