DENSITY SCARCITY Featured Artists Dayna Leavitt and Meredith Starr

                                                              Are You There?

                                                                      Are You There?

                          

                                                                     Are You There?

This week's feature artists for DENSITY SCARCITY are Dayna Leavitt and Meredith Starr.

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@meredithstarr
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Are You There? is a transatlantic collaboration between former roommates Meredith Starr, an interdisciplinary artist in New York, and Dayna Leavitt, a photographer in London. Their conversations over text messages share their daily and mundane experiences and have become the source material for their project, which initially began as a way to stay connected during various lockdowns during the pandemic. The title of the series references the question they ask each other most, and the titles of the digital collages incorporate snippets of their text messages. The images are trace evidence of their virtual conversations - an ambiguous reflection of observations that blur where one ends and the other begins. Streams of natural light and moving shadows are often layered with what they notice throughout the day such as debris from dinner, or what caught their attention on a daily walk like the wisp of a particularly pink cloud. As the artists navigate forced distance and a time difference, exploration of these themes create a constructed alternate reality. Their manipulated photographs reflect fabricated memories that simulate a shared experience, allowing them to invent an escapist, imagined space where the artists co-exist. The project is ongoing, and the artists have recently created an immersive and interactive VR experience, You Are Here VR, now available on the app store.

DENSITY SCARCITY is a virtual exhibit on @spatial.io that runs through November 1, 2023.

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