Speaking

I hate talking about my art. I absolutely despise it. I never feel that I am very good being verbal. That's why I make art, so I don't have to be verbal. If I wanted to talk or write about my feelings and perceptions I would have been a poet. Visual art is my escape from words. At least I thought it would be. People (my colleagues included) always seem to be offended and feel so cheated when I choose not to talk about my art. But my work isn't about talking to me, it about you talking to others. I just make my work for catharsis and put it out there. I don't want to talk about it, if I do it puts your imagination in a box. Anyone who knows my work knows that isn't at all what I want to do. Quite the contrary. Using verbal language to describe visual language doesn't make sense to me. I'm not trying to be difficult, I just feel that talking about my work defeats the purpose of me making art.


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Answers to Questions

I just saw Answers to Questions an exhibition by John Wood & Paul Harrison. What a great show! As an installation artist I was encouraged and inspired! The video work is beautifully done and playful. Please for your own benefit go see it. It's at the
H & R Blockspace until October. 1st.

www.kcai.edu/hr-block-artspace

- Posted from my iPhone

Location:H & R Blockspace

Published?!

Just found out I am being published in the largest fine art photography magazine in Korea!
http://www.iphotoplus.co.kr/v2/?lang=en


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Kickstarter for Fringe Show in Brighton, UK

Thanks for your help!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/752765073/fringe-show-in-brighton-uk

AM Gallery, Brighton, UK

I was accepted to show work in the Fringe Show in Brighton! I am really excited to show overseas. I'll be starting a Kickstarter to help cover shipping and artist fees. Posting the link soon!

http://www.amgallery.co.uk

https://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/ticketing/listing.aspx?ev=2800&et=4&ed=13722


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Artist Statement REVISED.

My work was sparked initially with a fascination of architecture. It is an interest I’ve had since childhood. I am a very tactile person. This desire for texture led me to begin looking at architecture and relating it to Russian Constructivism. I began looking at interlocking form and structure. Combined with personal struggles of being an emotional person that lives in an anti-male emotion culture and unrest with the ideological inequality of men and women, I make work exploring these ideas in juxtaposition with a study of architectural structures and human structures and the conflicts created.

My images sometimes evolve into installations. The elements involved in these installations make use of motion sensors, lights, video and sound to encourage interaction and immersion. These elements are sculptural in nature; large and small structures, anthropomorphic and rigid and explore the creation of space. The compositions presented are part of the larger study; the combination of engineered structures and human structures, architectural phenomenology, the study of how people react and interact with structures.

Each installation space has an image as an initial visual reference point. These images frequently speak to Dali or Magritte in nature and are intended to further push the environment of an alternate reality. A place where the issues presented are done so in a way that cannot be ignored and must be considered. The images reference the stiff architectural structure and the flowing human structure, but never directly. When one sees a problem or the potential for a problem the brain must resolve it. Photographs don’t allot this type of resolution when a question is involved and that forces the viewer to make their own conclusion about this issue presented. This type of persistence and reliability of a viewer trying to break down the meaning of intestines in a Victorian-esque image is exactly the obsession that fuels my work. The intestines are a cue; given to push a unique sensation that can trigger a unique experience. I want my images to be connected with emotions, a personal feeling for each viewer; because the viewer is bringing their own understanding to the image, structures and space, this data informs their answer to the questions that I have presented.

By creating their own narrative with cues of conflict, space, structure, and image, viewers can better understand the meaning personally and further meditate on my work. The meaning then becomes the product of their own interpretation and further yet the viewer shares as much with the space as the space shares with the viewer.

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Project Proposal

This project is a study of phenomenology and more specifically architectural phenomenology; the study of conscious experience and that of sensory properties as applied to structures and images.

The work is about creating a world the viewer can have an experience in. That enables me to freely create and not be bound by the physical rational world. I want to make my viewers work for the conceptual. This desire will translate into 10 images and 5 events (sometimes including images) with full immersion in an installation space pushing the viewer out of their reality, into my own. The events and stand-alone images will be in conversation with one another, perhaps allowing the viewer to create a narrative. The elements involved in these installations will be technological and sculptural in nature. The events will involve and require all sensory abilities. I want my viewers to not just see an image, but to feel it. My images should resonate, not just in the sound projected or the sculpture presented but in the thoughts of the viewer as they gradually allow themselves to be absorbed. 

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Fresh Ideas

From my artist statement:

"The viewer has to engage with the image in order to appreciate it and fully enjoy it. By creating their own narrative, viewers can better understand the meaning personally and further meditate on my work. The meaning then becomes the product of their own interpretation and further yet the viewer shares as much with the image as the image shares with the viewer."

I am beginning to think a lot about the viewer experience, particularly my viewer's experience. I want to really manipulate feelings and thoughts. I feel like that began to happen with some of my works last year. The ones that were most successful were the ones least explained. So while I will continue to hide and guard things about my images, I am choosing now to add elements to further guide my viewer to the conclusion I want. Elements like sound and sculpture. This leads me to phenomenology and more specifically architectural phenomenology; the study of conscious experience and that of sensory properties as applied to structures. So now not only will my viewers be responsible for unpacking an image, but they will have to work through that image in conjunction with an architectural space. 

PS: That is the most aesthetically pleasing urinal I have ever seen.

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New Years Resolution

use this blog more. Oh like, I don't know, a real artist or real blogger for that matter. Do it TRAVIS!


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