Online | November 2020 | Emma LD (Various), Hazel Kilinç (TR), Ismail Odetola (NG), Patrick Lydon (JP), and Aubree Penney (US)

Flow Tales is a digital call for artists and exhibition which explore the relationship between landscape and community on a local and global scale, and transfers this criticality to inspiration for artistic production.

Flow Tales are untold stories of water, rivers, seas, lakes, located in an era of disturbed flows around the globe.

In a small suburban yard, beneath the relentless Memphis sun, my grandfather dreamed of a stream, digging a small streambed that framed a slip of an island made just for me. We dreamed of tarps, of plastic liners, of lines of tubing that would make our dreams a reality. We dreamed in waters, shallow and clear and cool. There are moments when I swear there must have been water there. I recall sitting on my island with my feet in the water, the cool of the earth rising up into the soles of my feet. The grass was moist and dewy; your hand would come up damp if you trailed it along the top of the tickling grass. I wasn’t waiting for water. There was already water there. We were just waiting for enough water that our ankles would be wet all the way.