Luff island
Drawing is Amy’s primary medium, which she translates into animation, printmaking, writing, and social practice. She borrows the structure of introspective essays within the stylistic and narrative traits of comic strips in her search for human connection, playfulness and empathy. She uses people-watching and pseudo-interviews to explore how the intention of artmaking generates conversations, comfort, and intimacy between friends and strangers.
luff island is an animation that acknowledges the sentimentality of people-watching and the act of looking. Its narrator talks us through the made and missed connections within Love Island and The Batchelor to position reality dating shows as an empathetic performance of collective watching and ritual. The first missed connection is the narrator’s inability to relate to many fans who love these shows - initially criticising the pantomime of love and dating. Then, by video-calling and interviewing fans of the genre, the narrator makes a connection with her flattened friends (ironically through the same screen that she watches and fails to connect to reality TV through).
room designed and created by Shannon stocker