Artist's Studio #1
2014
Artist's Studio #1
Original rendition of a Sol Lewitt Drawing, Tape, boxes, paper, books, walls, desk, camera
Digital Vellum Print
40" x 60"
Artist's Studio #2
2014Artist's Studio #2: Tape, boxes, paper, books, walls, desk, sledgehammer
Digital Vellum Print
40" x 60"
The process of making photographs involves the relationship of the hand in conjunction with the mechanics of a machine. It requires a lens. It mimics the eye, but records light, form, weight, and balance separately from what the eye can observe. It severs away a slices of time, resulting in a moment that only alludes to a before and after. It is the result of several makers, the maker who utilizes the decisive moment, the one who employs the action of the camera, and the maker who exists after the moment the photograph is taken. The image quite literally flattens the physical experience of making.
In bringing together two separate representations of time, physical and a visual time, several makers dissect each other. While the image remains static, the performance can incite movement within it. It brings forth a system of chaos, there is an unhinging of the stillness that an image can produce. In return the image works to stabilize this chaos, to organize it and present it back onto the viewer. Within my process the maker becomes both part of the image and beside it. The author, most often exists within a transitory state, making the objective of the work fluctuate a similar fashion. I am interested in what happens when the hand of the maker is evident within the work but the body has been removed.
This exclusion speaks about the things that exist around the performer, the maker, the artist. The tools, the scraps, the objects create a fiction and holds a truth about making about the author.
