Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames is a film that begins at a picnic by the lakeside. Every ten seconds, we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible as a mere speck of light. Ascending back to Earth, the viewer zooms into the hand of the sleeping picnicker–with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. The journey ends inside a proton of an atom…
Broad Picnic examines the picnic blanket as a shared plane, a framework for connection. A matrix of checkerboard, polka dots, miniature counterparts collect in infinite directions. The weave of fabric is strengthened by the nature of repetition and multiplication. Patterns are essential for evolution, encompassing slight shifts at every renewal. Every artistic act is a process of accretion. From the first brushstroke, mark, or gesture, a sequence begins to emerge, dissolving that initial gesture into its own imagedom. Wrinkles, fractures, folds, and punctures warp and distort the rules of the stratum. Accumulation is a lens in which to view ourselves: parts of a whole, fresnel facets of a bulb, a fractal trove of collective unconscious.
The impulse to collect and repeat, to expand outward and amplify….droplets pool in a puddle, coins jingle in a walker's pocket, portals open and close in a laundromat, candle soot marks days into nights, pages add up to a book…a game of connect-the-dots to define space and harness the potential in the lapses and gaps between each interval.
 
Broad Picnic is the work of Angela Bidak, Bjorn Copeland, Peter Davies, Alex Eagleton, Brock Enright, Marie Gyger, Miles Huston, Alex Hutton, Janine Iversen, Antonia Kuo, Suzanne Levesque, Chris Martin, Servane Mary, Armando Nin, Michael Andrew Page, Bronson Smillie and Milly Skellington.