Julie Shapiro

It is a nod to kind of the repetitive motion of knitting and handiwork.

And then we also, I thought this was really fun, another prompt was to give your story a color, which is like really nonsense also, but it was very fun to say, like, what color does your story have?

sound like at the end of it.

So that was also a nod to kind of the yarn and different colors of yarn and a sort of synesthetic sense that Lorna has when she hears music and thinks of patterns.

So those were the prompts in the theme.

And the piece we're going to hear is called Red Card, and the color is red.

It's by a couple of producers, Vivian Schutz and Laura Rojas-Apante.

And the thing that is really notable to me about this one is as much as Fluxworks can be personal and artistic and talk about big abstract ideas, they can also very clearly document the world around us and things happening now.

And they really pulled that off with this piece.

Answer your questions or sign...

Yeah, and just a couple of those lines that really bring home the situation that we're reading a lot about in the news, but just that personal window into actual people's experience of having the cards and dispersing them.

And we also thought the theme, creative tension, for me was also a moment of reflection as artists and creative people.

Like, what do we do in this moment?

where things around us seem chaotic and what is an artist's role in this moment.

So there's sort of this meta notion of creative tension, which the printmaker elaborates or is very eloquent about talking about what can he do in this moment.

So this piece speaks to all of the themes wrapped up in the overarching theme of creative tension.

Yeah, and speaking them, the people that they are for and are about, speaking them.

So this is a document that is about community and about all the people.

And then you're actually hearing it read by some of these people.

It's so satisfying and it's so powerful.