Wednesday, November 29, 2006
One tricky thing with these photo pieces is documenting them. The works exist as images in space, and the experience of reading them as you move around them is really important. They assemble and dis-assemble; open and close. Both states are valid.
But I’ve never been a fan of the multiple-view documentation. I [...]
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
An excellent post over on Conscientious. These guys get right at the issues here.
(I’ve started about five different sentences as added commentary, but erased them all. I’ll let these guys say it better…)
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Tenser, said the Tensor has successfully taken up the task of pixel-peeping the images posted under my Sentence Diagrams post below, providing on his blog the reconstructed source quotations. Remember what they said at the end of those 80’s GI Joe cartoons? “Now you know, kids, and knowing is half the battle.” Luckily for me, [...]
Monday, November 27, 2006
One hope I have (with this blog!) is not to be too myopic and solipsistic. There’s a world out there! (So I hear.)
In that spirit, if you’re in New York, check out “Pursuit of Happiness”, guest curated by Christopher Howard, at Sarah Bowen Gallery , opening this Friday, December 1, from 7 [...]
Thursday, November 23, 2006
I’m trying to make philosophical objects. But in the spirit of empiricism, the success of the image/object is not judged by its ability to communicate a philosophical claim, but instead by its ability to embody a claim. The image/object is not merely the text to be read, then agreed with or not by [...]
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
I suppose it’s true of all installation work in varying degrees, that the pieces are tailored to fit the spaces. The exact proportions of my Sentence Diagram installations change for each wall; but it seems to have a lesser effect on the essential character of the piece. In the case of the Photo Installations, part [...]
Monday, November 20, 2006
My feeling about the photo-pieces - a feeling I hope they convey - is that the reading of the images doesn’t lead right into the known rhetoric of the “simulacrum”. To me, that doesn’t go nearly far enough. As theory it’s interesting; as art-as-experience, it lacks. The intellectual porridge that gives rise to my thinking [...]
Saturday, November 18, 2006
The public side of my work - by which I mean work that I’ve managed to get out of the studio and into the world - are the Sentence Diagrams. They take two main forms: small-ish collaged drawings and large wall installations. I always use found quotations, never my own texts. That [...]
Saturday, November 18, 2006
I’m developing this body of work of sculptural photography - or I don’t know, maybe “installational photography” is better - and I’ve discovered that the medium throws up some specific roadblocks. When working on a painting or drawing, it’s a simple matter to just “keep going” as long as the image hasn’t come to [...]
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
“Mirrored Wire”, 2005. Wire, hanging hardware, mounted photos, and pencil on wall.