Flo Low is a British-Armenian artist, graphic designer, and art educator based in Brooklyn. They use printmaking and textile to explore the figures and landscapes of the past, how they shape us and how we shape them in response to loneliness and alienation. In their practice, they gather found fragments that give us a glimpse into the layered history around us, including city typography, which they have published as the NYC ABCs, and Armenian food history, published as Recipes from a Free Artsakh. Inspired by the children they work with, their ongoing project Bags for Life plays with form and function through designing and making single-purpose (but not single use) bags.
An homage to Derek Jarman’s short super 8 film A journey to Avebury(1971). After visiting the site, I identified specific stones that appeared both in my photos and in Jarman’s film, and made prints out of them. This is an exploration of queer place-making and memorialising, and what it means to make a site of ritual and connection to forebears into a tourist attraction. The blue ink is a nod to his later film Blue (1993).