Quiet in Chaos, Chantal Morfitt, 2021
This year has been one of the most fast-paced and trauma-filled years of many people's lives, and yet the theme of this year’s Flash Forward program was ’Still Life’. At first, I had a few basic ideas for it, but I quickly got distracted and swept up by life once again and had to leave this project for later. By the time I got back to it, I realized that what I had originally conceptualized didn’t fit what I wanted anymore. So I came up with something new.
Connected to the rest of the world through technology, we are receiving a continual flow of information which especially in the past year can be suffocating and vertigo-inducing. I wanted to connect to what audiences might be feeling: trapped within the seemingly never-ending chaos of life in 2020-21.
Finding stillness in life has always been important, but especially now. We need to remember to take care of ourselves and to find time in peaceful stillness to rejuvenate.