Julie Shapiro

One thing I should say is so many of the flux works revolve around family relationships.

And so this next piece also has to do with fatherhood and language and hearing voice.

But it's a very, very different story told in a very different way.

So we're going to hear First Words by Peter Langstanton, and this is basically a kind of time-lapse piece about the first two years of his son's life.

Yeah.

Relatable.

I mean, yeah, it's very relatable for anyone who's lived with kids learning language.

Yeah.

And hearing the development, you know, it doesn't seem, it's like sort of when you're in the moment, you don't notice it.

But when you hear the syllables become words, become emotional, you know, utterances, it's so powerful and remarkable.

And it seems, you know, incredible that we learn language at all, but yet we do.

Okay, we just finished Circuit Six.

The theme was creative tension.

And our partner in this theme and circuit was Lorna Hamilton Brown, who has become known as the Banksy of knitting in the fabric art circles.

Fantastic.

I know, I know.

Well, quite an honor, and she has definitely earned it.

Lorna explores all kinds of social justice issues through her art, and her art is mostly knitting, crocheting, working with fabrics.

She's also a teacher and an activist and an educator, but we were really lucky to meet her and work with her for this circuit.

And so the theme was creative tension, and we asked people to include the sound, like a repetitive sound in their flux work.