How to Collect and Display Unfinished Conversations
See Redirect in CA this Jan/Feb
Ekphrasis | Glossary Terms | Poetry
Very excited to share that the first work in my "Redirect" series is included in a group show at blueline Gallery in California. The show is titled "Ekphrasis"
It's a perfect theme for this series, because well the description to the side is a creative riff on the artist work, this series already encourages reflection within itself.
-“Description in Greek. An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning."
Redirect #1, Robert Frank, View from a Hotel Window Butte Montana, 1944-46
A famous post-structuralist quote, only remade in the second person internet slang, diagrammed, but ready to be remade again.
Old scribbled on Wood Playskool blocks, vintage Letraset, Acrylic coating
Statement specific to entry:
Language is broken to allow an entry into it, broken internet slang needs no invitation to remix. Here's a Modular Post-Structuralist quote and internet-speak - in the 2nd person. The reader can literally rebuild language. It reads 'That feel when the stars are fixed in your literary text, but the lines going them are fluctuating continuously'
On Not Dumbing Down
It’s easy to identify art projects that purport to be democratic but nonetheless are shunned by its own subjects. Those artists most pressing concern is not connection to the general audience (which clearly hasn’t been considered) but the artist’s (valid) fear of appearing unsophisticated to art world peers. This backfires. Their peers see the obvious intention slam down like a hammer, while the social in social justice crowd feels suspicious, excluded from what they deem weird and unfamiliar.
Making art accessible doesn’t require dumbing it down. Making that connection involves refining your conduit of.. whatever it is that flows between you and your audience. Accessibility done right uses it’s power to push through membranes of class as well as time and distance. Inaccessibility uses its energy to push only upwards, maintaining distance. That is also a valid choice, but it should be a conscious one.
There’s no special purity in making democratic art for ‘The People’ and there’s nothing shameful in constructing relevance within the borders of art intelligentsia. These folks push culture forward. They are entirely valid. They’ve worked hard to be where they are. They too care about social justice, and hunger for elegant expressions to move them to action.
I do think about those offering involvement to a wider poplace, and how I can attempt it. I think it requires an empathetic restraint. An economy of means can allow multiple entries into exploring the work. My topics don’t involve nameable categories of social justice. My expression of égalité searches for an arc towards accessibility without condescension.
the stars are fixed in your literary text
Language is broken to allow an entry into it, broken internet slang needs no invitation to remix. Here's a Modular Post-Structuralist quote in the 2nd person the reader can literally rebuild.
It reads "That feel when the stars are fixed in your literary text, but the lines going them are fluctuating continuously"
TFW #5 (Fluctuating) 2016, Wood blocks and Letraset.
Lost + Found September 8, 2016
I'm excited to have been chosen for the juried show "Lost + Found" at the Loft Artist Gallery, 575 Pacific Street, Stamford, CT.
From the prospectus:
"The expression Lost and Found can spur a whole host of associations: a repository of objects and their attendant histories; feelings of loss and displacement; and notions of recovery, return, even redemption. What is worth holding on to? What does it mean to find someone or some thing? Where do you find yourself now? In 1964 Yoko Ono composed the one-line score: “Draw a Map to Get Lost,” suggesting that the goal lies not in finding an exact destination, but rather in getting lost or losing oneself within the process or journey. This offers us a productive model wherein the experience of being lost - or found - are both parts of a more liberated path of discovery and creation. Allow this theme of “lost and found” to take you where it will. "
Dioramarama May 13
"The thing we love about dioramas is that they can transport the viewer, immediate portals into a different universe."
Please come see my work at:
Dioramarama : A Group Show, Gallery Opening Reception Club 157
Club 157 : Coworking Space & Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Event Description
Club 157 (www.club157.com)is Bushwick/East Williamsburg's newest art gallery(also event space and free coworking space by appointment weekdays during business hours!).
Text or Image?
Is text art meant to be seen as language or image?
https://shortforcaterina.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-signiconic-negation-in-the-familiar/
Danielewski's "The Familiar"
In Progress Proposal
From my notes:
Figure out the square or cubic feet required to bury the dead and all the horses that the angel of Gettysburg had to dig, then create a structure of the same volume made of mourning crepe. Maybe embroider on it with something for some reason. Or put tiny seed lights inside.
Civil war hospital shaped tent made with victorian mourning crepe.
Meaning is a Filter
Phrase scribbled down while brainstorming a Gettysburg proposal.
This is, actually, a theme that applies to most of my work. That's what happens when you think about gauze.