IslANDs - Compressed Realities - Exploded Photoworks

The placement of disfigured objects in painterly field,
reverted negatively colored digital photographic images or
the neutral field of the gallery or open natural space both
of which I look upon as a blank space, tabula rasa, with the
sculpture debris forming 3d drawings in confined or free
space. “Dethinged” buildings – that is buildings which in
their making posthumously bypass their use and program –
can do the same with the same effect. The interplay of solid
and void, presence and absence can have many levels, the
gap between my sculptures whose voids have been opened
up is very important – as important as the disfigured objects
themselves. Thingness and nothingness, reality and play aim
at a high level of abstraction beyond ordinary prescriptions.
Mirrored fusions, endless reflections, radiating blacks,
bursting whites, materialized diagrams.
I think it was Wilhelm Reich who said that the modern man
was stuck in between the fascism of the everyday and his
higher ideals and Scott Fitzgeralds mentioned that it was
the ability of the sound mind to have two opposite thought
and still function. This I like – along with a good oration of
oppositions and contradictions for breakfast.
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