Tangible Metafora
Artists: Cristina Koutsolioutsou & Shannon Rose Moriarty
The Artists and their Reflections
Cristina Koutsolioutsou
Cristina Koutsolioutsou, a graphic artist living in Athens, Greece, uses popular imagery and satire to comment on the dystopic reality of recent events. She wants to examine people’s behaviours during the pandemic to better understand the necessity of normality.
During this project I got to meet an awesome person that I am happy to have in my life from now on, Shannon. We managed to connect in a semi/analog and digital way via our project. We created a story, a diary , a reflection piece that we took around in our everyday lives. Before I met Shannon during quarantine no2 I started cutting out carton box shapes and colouring them . I would place them around my house and document them as some sort of meditational activity. With tangible metafora we managed to turn these objects into subjects representing or reflecting different stages of our lives of the past months.The most important outcome for me is that this project initiated a connection of two people that have a lot in common , but live in two different parts of the world, and would not have met otherwise.
Our project does not stop here. We wish to continue our corresponding journey by developing our ideas in a virtual and interactive axis.
Shannon Rose Moriarty
Shannon Rose Moriarty is a mixed-media artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She creates installations out of clay and found materials that reveal a relationship between form and surface to connect personal memories to community, material, and space.
Tangible metafora reflects, collects and documents our lives. We’ve shared countless moments and photos archiving our experiences with each other and our introduced shapes help us tell those stories.
Creating these objects has shown me how much I look to repurpose experiences. How I can make meaning out of simple pleasures and how sentimental I am about intentionality.
Transforming these shapes and adding digital distance was a helpful exercise in purposefully letting go and I am thankful that Cristina and I chose to do this together. We are connected through our work but our relationship has grown out of playful communication and willingness to trust each other. I’ve loved it!
I’m excited to continue sharing, contemplating and creating together! This journey is far from over.
To following along with their project, you can find Tangible Metafora here
