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BC Robbins  

Art Studio

Flow Lines

Flow Lines is an interdisciplinary collaboration blending art, visual effects, and sound, featuring contributions from Jon Hatch, Bruce Robbins, and Malcolm Macdougall. Inspired by the multidirectional flow of rivers and estuaries, Flow Lines represents an interconnection of multiple creative disciplines. Marie-Louise Miller brought the artist together as Artistic Director. This immersive experience synthesizes responses to various original source materials, with each response building upon the last. Flow Lines invites the audience to explore these variations as a community, while reflecting on their own individual responses. A talk-back with the artists will followed the performance.

In January of 2024 I began the process of  creating a 100 ft. painting on shear white fabric to be turned into an abstract video of moving water inspired by the Hudson River. I was introduced to  composer Jon Hatch as a collaborator to compose music for the project we called Flow Lines. I felt that the lines I painted looked like abstract sheet music. We worked in tandem for six months with producer Marie-Louise Miller who runs an Artist Conversations Series for RiverArts.org. 

Painting is a mediation for me. While working on this six month long creation which took me around 133 hours,  I listened to the music of composer Jon Hatch. I would then take photos of my work in progress and share it with him as inspiration for his work on our Flow Lines project. Our collaboration was an easy ebb and flow that brought peace of mind while investigating variations on stillness. 

My new work focuses on the continuation of a creative process I call Brush Stroke Meditations. I work at slowing down my overactive mind by appreciating the physical and mental act of painting one line at a time. This process helps me to live in the present moment. Each line is a free-flowing gesture of its own that does not touch the one next to it but is essential to the creation of the whole image. I find the repetition of this process comforting. The painted lines slowly build up to a composition where decisions are continually being made at the moment. I work toward creating an image that will move my senses and pique my curiosity upon viewing.