WE’re All Watching

We’re All Watching

Donna Isham joins forces with Grammy & Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated composer, ambient synthesizer pioneer and husband, Mark Isham, in their first-ever collaboration- creating two new multi-media art experiences debuting at Aqua Art Fair. The two installations merge electronics, video projection, and large-scale mixed media paintings in an immersive Visual/Sonic experience. Sonically, the art installations combine ambient and synthesized sound with snippets of field chatter taken from Paris, New York, and Aspen and original music composed by Mark. Visually, film burns and scratches are projected over Donna’s rich, evocative, figurative and abstract paintings, with strong gestural layers of brushed paint, sinuous forms, and bold coloration. The installation includes painted mannequins further echoing the fragility of life, and the roboticism of our current culture. The Ishams’ looked for ways to show the paralysis of common relationships and communication today and the divide between humanity and the artificial. Donna Isham states, “as one enters the space, they are engulfed in the soundtrack of life. The viewer is in the world, yet watching the world at the same time - both the creator of worlds and a pawn of the universe.” These works cheekily comment on our over indulgence in technology and our disconnect in our “ever-connected” modern era.