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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