distance between us is experimenting with how we, as artists, can find a “new normal” within the global pandemic and digital environments.

The distance between us collective brings together two households: the Windatts (Tara & Clayton Windatt) in Sturgeon Falls and ee portal (Elyse & Emilio Portal) in Sudbury.

Working across two separate Northern Ontario locations, our ad hoc group mediates emotional and physical isolation through creatively reaching out to each other.

We are digging out unrealized digital archives and documenting new intimacies with our home locations.

While COVID has reassembled our practices to our personal ecologies, we believe that the materials being gathered at this time need each other to be fully alive.

We are humans living in a pandemic lockdown reality and need creative exchanges. Exchanges between people and other-than-humans provides a sense of community, which is key to our well-being.