TOUCH BASE

Touch Base is a community of faces; daydreaming, hoping, conspiring and finding each other on SEAGER’s windows. Two figures, having missed each other dearly, merge into one — yet one quickly divides into many as we are strong in multitudes. 

Taking after the pictorial language of the Russian avant-garde’s ROSTA window posters, SEAGER has commissioned Tiz Creel to install a mural on the gallery’s street facing windows for the local community. In her story, we see neighbours point towards each other, to the street, the sky — Mira! Look! It’s us! Like so many pebbles on a beach, all the faces of our friends compose a delicate view stretching forward in time. 

Tiz Creel’s practice is about play  — that moment of collective creativity which enables us to participate in the world together. Now, at a time when we can’t go out to play, her drawings come as a letter from one neighbour to another, celebrating our codependency. Like a portal into another world, the mural reveals how ‘social distancing’ has shown us its opposite to be true — we are stronger when we care for each other.