2023 - ongoing
Initial piece created at the Headlands Center for the Arts
Drawing Chalk is an ongoing drawing practice with various public’s impacted by gun violence. The work explores our societal relationship to firearms and mass shootings through the lens of a playground. Participants were given pastel pieces of chalk in the shape of guns and were asked to draw various images from news media coverage of mass shootings using the objects, effectively grinding them into dust. This work examines the impact random acts of violence have on the collective psyche by turning a play pastime into a stage for collective anxieties around gun violence. By physically grinding the chalk guns into powder, the performance becomes a symbolic act of firearm disposal while rendering new visual interpretations around the influence of public violence on our bodies and psyches.
Upcoming | Current
The Innocence of Unknowing at Tribeca Film Festival (Immersive)
Recent
Workers Fleeing the Factory in MIMESIS Magazine
grip at other others // rehearsals in the skin at Human Resources
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet, Jen Gilomen
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.
The Innocence of Unknowing at Tribeca Film Festival (Immersive)
Recent
Workers Fleeing the Factory in MIMESIS Magazine
grip at other others // rehearsals in the skin at Human Resources
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet, Jen Gilomen
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.