NYAB Event - “Transitions v.2” Exhibition

“Transitions v.2” Exhibition

The Active Space

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Apologies for the crappy photo, it’s hard to get everything in focus at that small scale! i wanted to make a piece that captured my feeling about impending ecological catastrophe using american consumer culture flotsam and jetsam (Grobstein) in other words, a nation that has hastily been converted from a socialist/communist state into a free-market capitalist economy (Henry). The societal desire for overly complicated technology that performs meaningless tasks is draining public interest in traditionally functional objects and rituals (Zapata). Created during a period of political instability and warfare, the text advocates harmony with nature according to outlined universal truths that address balance and transitions (Shu). The Transitory Space series deals with urban and natural locations that are transforming due to the passage of time, altered natural conditions and a continual human imprint. They are endlessly interesting, alive places where there is a great deal of beauty and fragility. They are temporary monuments to the ephemeral nature of existence (Oates).

I make a mentally abstract space of competing realities, one where meaning is flattened as a sum of disparate thoughts or moments (Johnson). Simultaneously definite and ethereal, they offer a landscape of differing temperaments and spatial levels (Niemeier). An image of a frog in “camouflage” found on a wikpedia article is presented on a computer screen. It blends with its environment to a point of non-differentiation. The website as an encyclopedia written in ones and zeros. The computer as a machine for making copies. The photograph looks like a place that comes to look more like the photograph (Moore). Though essentially paintings, realized with spray paint and stenciled imagery, they are referred to as drawings because of the economical agility in their making (Niemeier).
…and I find this kind of “nonsense” relaxing (Johnson).”