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Grand Isle by Heather Hansen

Grande Isle is a short film by artist Heather Hansen and photographer Bryan Tarnowski, with music by Dustan Louque, capturing Heather’s Emptied Gestures series. Heather, recalling the genesis of film, explains “at that time I wanted to reconnect to the origins of my kinetic drawing practice. I told Bryan about a time years earlier at the beach with my son when we had been drawing in the sand with our feet doing ballet turns and when I looked back on the tracks I had the idea to try something like that on canvas. At that time I was living in a warehouse space with a community of artists in New Orleans, and this collaboration with Bryan and also Dustan on music was one of the many projects we worked together on. It was a very exciting and creative time period and there was a fantastic sense of camaraderie and community”.