Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH 2020
Robert Fowler
USA
www.whaltho.com
About
Out of Chicago, USA, Robert is a designer, writer, and
musician. His influences come from a curiosity of the natural
world–working with colors and shapes, resembling scientific
diagrams and information. Ending up with results that are
absurd, yet familiar and organic. Whaltho is the identity
which he assumes while working, finding that a separation
from his birth face exposes a philosophy of creation inspired
by an interaction with the source of his life long ingenuity
and observations. He has played in a band in Chicago for
three years called Faintlife, and performs solo experimental
electronic music. His work has been shown in multiple
independent gallery shows in Chicago.
The space between each moment is connected by a line–a
line with a particular color, and each moment of a particular
shape. What shape has no line before it, and what color could
it possibly be? The cold woods may know.
Continuing simplicity
Moving myself to Finland and escaping from the life I’ve
been connected to turned out to be realization that the
simplicity in existing remains active in all circumstances.
Looking out of my window into the snowy forest strangely
reminded me of looking through my home studio’s window
at the brick wall of the apartment next to my own, two
feet away. The self, in varying environments, is still the
self. Only the reactions, and being sensitive to the effects
thereof, alter as your surroundings change by physically
relocating. I found myself, my self, using identical methods
to manipulate my surroundings into artistic expression as I
always have. However, the output changed, and such change
was welcomed. Because I needed to feel change to be
encouraged by a new habitat to warp my sense of creation
into something fresh–into something I could have never
created in any other situation. This conformity to space and
elevation from attachments is something I will hold dear in
my memory.