Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space

There is nothing like floatying in a warm swimming pool that is quiet and empty other than yourself. swimming underwater to the simple echos of water friction and a deep vibrato from a pump somewhere.Suspended in a hydro pool with only the souind of jets. eyes closed on a stem bath with slow deep breaths. Today i moved past my physical existence. without paying attention to water displacement i was only floating like your brain floats expeirencing the electro-chemical impulses stimulating my brain. the slow pings and pangs of morphine...a high in itself without the itchies. gums numb in an ice cream freeze. frontal lobe switched off. perception lost in the ignored displacement. Doers our everyday experiences get affected by our influence? i mean to say that are we affecting a physical environment with our prescence othert than that of the excahnge of oxygen and carbon dioxede? do we trnsmute energies that affect others and other things around us? do we carry these traces with us and leave these type of traces at the sametime? like the ghostly vapors of heat off the road? are we leaving trails in our wake? how can this be illustrated in an installation? time lapse photography/ a slow shutter speed can illustrate this, but how else can this be communicated?

graduated

how i change....changes how the things i see are....and thus changes how i understand our relationship to be. this is also true of space.to the observer. With it being in relation to myself i judge the space......,but usually without understanding the judgements being made i forget that i can change the space. The active roll i took in the installation 'like for like' changed my physical relationship and the mental picture understanding constantly. i was unable get teh whole picture until i was finished adn a week after that. And at the end of it all i looked back at the empty sculpture court and i stilll wanted to see the work. like staring at a red square for long enough. then look away and you see the residual green square. the same aspect has happened with each of my installaltions with the cardboard....not so much with the installation. more info coming down the pipe gotta simmer on it.

invigilating the (in)between

Corrugated card is such a familiar material. It is disregarded as easily as it is discarded. Most of the viewers ,who participate within the space, are there for 20 seconds, with many of them smiling. Some even smile and make comments such as, ‘ Cardboard, unh?’, ‘ Must’ve taken ages, yeah?’ or where’s the paintings?’ I even heard one show goer exclaim, ‘oh! dear’. Oh dear? What does that mean?

(in) between is in a highly trafficked area, installed adjacent to the sculpture court, a majority of the visitors ,atleast, see the mass of cardboard boxes assembled for the installation. As some venture through the space, overwhelmed by the amount of card. Constantly looking up and around the space to take it all in. Fantastic! And as they investigate, they kick tiles across the floor or bump into piles causing them to topple and take on the sculptures of David Mach.I have had feed back from people happy to see the warm corrugated cardboard. “ it brought a smile across these lips.’, one lady confessed, ‘ and that is just what I needed.’, she finished.

Everyone walks through to stop at the projection. Are we that trained to think of film or television monitors as the real piece? It is the need for having an object/image to look at for an experience I believe most are looking. i think that it has proved to be distraction in teh installation as it often is in real life.

in relation. (thoughts outloud)

how do we see objects? in relation to ourselves and in relation to other objects within space. that space is, however, a result of place and time. time being a measurement of our own accordance. place is affected by where we have been before. 'cuts in space' is then under the term of our own devices. as a painter when composing a painting, the compostition is understood by how one defines the space with the objects in the picture plane in relation to each other(the objects). the mystery and the myth come from the lack of understanding in the difference between the viewer and the painter's point of view. how about the painter's point of view the following day as they return to the scene of the crime. there is the old stable question 'when is a painting done?'. i have always thought is was when it was out of reach of the painter's brush. Any deciding point for stopping could be argued that this point of rest is a finished point. developed to a certain recognition and approval. in relation to understanding. an understanding to the intent of the artist. whose gamble is it? whose deal is it?

time

The installation for the degree show is under way. We went out to skateraw archive to gather my corrugated card used in the piece 'free space', which had been previously used in the 'like 4 like' work. it took longer to get there than it did for the three of us to box all the tiles. we returned to the main building finally to drop the boxes in place. I did some quick sketches and have added to my original plans for the new installation angles and study of place...'cuts in space'. This avenue should provide an arena more confrontational witht eh viewer, however it will continue to produce an effect of exchange. stay tuned for the developements of the degree show piece.

place

Place is a reference to a position to space and time. A relationship in conjunctiuon to surroundings. A relationship of object to object to human being. Capitalism is an arena of human beings in relation to objects ,attempting to survive and transcend their surroundings. I talk about capitalism because we live in an age that is passed that of the hunter and gatherer. i almost typed 'hunger and gatherer'. Our space in the west has reached a point that we can't solely provide for ourselves off the land in urban areas. We depend upon a system of supply and demand. Capitalism provides ........a place to consume. A place that invests on gluttony. A place that expects that the goods created and developed are a variable to supplant the existing conditions of a 'slave'. " 2. a person who is strongly influened by or controlled by something"-Oxford English Dictionary. We, in the west. are in a positon of educated choices. We have alternatives of luxury. Some within our system do not have these choices because of economic pressures and responsibilities. As a commiunity we should look after each other. Communities through time have survived because of the different roles individuals have played in the survival of the community on a whole. Capitalism doesn't need communities; just one dollar at a time. In our definitions of individuality, we cling to the limited choice of a system to represent a projected self. A system of walking signifiers of self. " [The] brand identity and personality should either represent its target consumers - their values, lifestyles, and sensibilities- or what they would like these factors to be."- Mythmaking on madison avenue- s.randazzo

minimalas maximas

I splayed out 10000 plus tiles. A work dealing with a multi-faceted level of engagement. I have brought my ideas toward painting forward into a way of explaining my ideas through installation. By continuing to use intuition in the distribution i have used a range of corrugated card tiles to explain the prevalence of the materials and give an added depth to the piece by the use of 'found' objects to age the work. My training in painting and mostly a pursuit in abstract expression originally has lead me to a form of communication that may be seen as similiar to constructivism or minimalist sculpture. By trying to describe an arena that is ubiquitous with in our culture by the simplest means through an interactive work to address the system of exchange. My earlier posts describe the role that can be played by the participant or the relevance of the work without the evidence of the viewer. I still see the installations as paintings, through their process and application. The same reference materials and range of objects used in my paintings can be found in the installations. The process is as important in the installtions as it is for me in the paintings. The installations allow me a way to create more of an environment than my earlier wall hangers. ................
A new wave is brewing just off the coast of this experience that may incorporate both of the facets. we will see.