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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