Forest Bathing: Queer Portraits in Nature. What the series is about.
This series documents queer people exploring and being rejuvenated by forest bathing in nature. The collaboration with queer subjects across the spectrum of LGBTQIA+ includes video interviews and still photographs to share that sense of calm with our community. The goal is to capture a human centered portrait in nature and bring back that green natural environment to the gallery space.
There is an open call to be photographed for this ongoing project. Link to participate.
This series documents queer people exploring and being rejuvenated by forest bathing in nature. The collaboration with queer subjects across the spectrum of LGBTQIA+ includes video interviews and still photographs to share that sense of calm with our community. The goal is to capture a human centered portrait in nature and bring back that green natural environment to the gallery space.
There is an open call to be photographed for this ongoing project. Link to participate.
Land Acknowledgment. We acknowledge that this project takes place on the ancestral lands of Native Peoples. We acknowledge this not only in thanks to the Indigenous communities who have held a relationship with this land and stewarded it for generations, but also in recognition of the historical challenges. Additionally, we make this acknowledgement as a point of reflection for us all as we address these wrongs in an effort to heal our relationship with Native Peoples.
Sketchbook drawings to envision photographing queer forest bathing portraits.
Nate Mahoney creates work inspired by dualities. Design and art. Rural and urban. Photography and painting. Analog and digital. The work is centered on compassion for others trying to survive in our complex and inhospitable world. As a queer artist, and urban dweller, Nate reacts to the city with inspired work that communicates connections between people, time, nature, place, and space. Nate’s works often result from a research practice and collaborative process.
Nate received a MFA in Design from California College of the Arts, a MFA in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University, and a BA in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College.
Nate lives and works in downtown San Francisco, California.
A public art proposal to connect public swimming pools in different neighborhoods across the Bay Area. Inspired by taking WSI training at Oakland public pools and learning about a proposal to create a floating long course pool on the San Francisco water front. This initial idea is to update the defunct pool clock at Fremont pool in Oakland with a functional clock with a second hand to aide in timing workouts, a similar clock would be installed at other public pools in the Bay Area that would send and receive useful and poetic data from each location.
A performance art project to create a pop-up coffee shop that runs on an experimental Chat GPT conversation. The whole thing is a mechanical Turk. Perhaps this project should be called OZ coffee. In reference to the Wizard of Oz, who is always pulling levers behind the scenes.
Original Proposal UX flow:
1. Scan a QR code at the coffee pop up to begin a SMS chat conversation to order your coffee.
2. Prompt: What kind of coffee would you like and can I have your name for the order? (It’s free)
3. The customers name is hand written on the counter by a wand to suggest what could be automated with the delivery process while a lively conversation goes back and forth about the coffee order.
4. No matter what the customer orders, they just get a regular coffee from a basic Keurig machine behind the curtain.
5. The last message in the conversation will be asking to provide a 1 star review to be helpful to future customers. ⭐️
Site specific video installation at Harvey Milk’s former camera store. You are outside. You are inside. Castro neighborhood, San Francisco, CA.
About the artist
Nate Mahoney creates work inspired by dualities. Design and Art. Video and Still Photography. Nature and Urban. The work is centered on compassion for others surviving in our complex and often inhospitable world. As a queer artist, design researcher, and urban dweller, Nate reacts to the city with inspired work that communicates connections between people, time, nature, place, and space. Nate lives and works in downtown San Francisco, California.
