Process Painting & Experiments
1. Time Piece
Part One:
3 Canvas Scrolls, 18 ft long I paint everyday segment by segment, unrolling each part at a time Each with different rules: the Traveling Scroll can only be worked on outside of my house, in spaces I've never been the Thinking Scroll depicts interpretations of philosophies on time (I listen to them while I paint) the Daily Scroll I work on wherever I am- my diary, paint journal of dreams and thoughts, paint the day and hide it, rolling it away before tomorrow Part Two: In an art studio, I unroll all three side by side for the first time I work in the room continuously no food, no sleep 24 hours |
Part Three:
The scrolls are hung in a spiral with my daily notebook pages from this time detailing everything: what I do, what I eat, where my thoughts come from (I am an experiment) The spiral is like a labyrinth you can walk through Like a gypsy raven cave Like a shipwreck Part Four: A video chronicles my time in the space of creation My 24 hours; the thoughts in my head and the words that inspired this Challenge to time Part Five: The caption transmission reads like poetry and the process goes on and on... creation continues.... |
0:24fruit loops mind we could be wild who's on my Kansas 0:28where's rounded said Mike February 9 0:32conquest is getting there is one reality yesterday's 0:35which we all keys from within financial position and I 0:39simple analysis estimated our own personality 0:43energy flowing today hardstyle kitchen dealers 0:47yeah the only Alex times johnnie 0:50text first published 1:35sure yeah it's nice you know
1:38intelligence agency known to me on the site so many comparisons 1:41Spain I know of many Shaikh Zayed 1:45scratched college 1:48no simple standpoint said you know there's you make me outside 1:52yeah I just only one now there are no two identical moments in the life is 1:57this in conscious being 1:59Sri at which is confirmation that sounds established outages 2:03Shaan she cannot be better to just an asterisk 2:06yes missions to miss you for me it's just like them sucked into the engine 2:11answers 2:12yes well yet said but it is 2:15and distinctions have the first class permanent the 2:18they might be held to be more chest to be more sense and consciousness which |
0:53marked school to review strategy yes I search
0:57in the Dept supply chains at Wichita's uniformly 1:00must constantly seems in three months now 1:04find an alternate challenge painful its reality your 1:08technicians I'll certain suggestion housing 1:12animated with a comment like you search that a good night said 1:16for anyone other than reality it's malware and other yes or sensitive 1:20preaching all extent into each other 1:22is widely accepted and yet in all ages belief in the in reality 1:26times disprove singularly sections for section first large 1:31should be fine stop showed me how much I |
2. Painting over Paintings
(eye)dentity, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 36", 2012
An exploration of time, evolution, and chaos, (eye)dentity evolved over several months. Each time I sat in front of the canvas, an entirely new painting emerged, in a continuous explorative process that challenged me to relinquish control and attachment as I painted from the subconscious. As I learned about entropy and the universe's continuous expansion, the canvas reflected my thoughts. Increasingly chaotic lines and swirls inevitably covered the previous layers, just as they started to make sense. A depiction of my face was overcome completely by an expanding mass of chaotic patterns in black, that grew outward from a cosmic explosion in white. The ultimate painting , influenced by Jorge Luis Borges' essay “Time and J.W. Dunne”, reflects the overwhelming limitlessness of identity. Borges describes Dunne's notion of infinite regression thus: because we are cognizant not only of what we observe but also of our observing identity (A), we must have a second identity (B) that observes (A). The pattern continues; there must be an identity (C) to observe identity (B), and so on to infinity. Dunne posits that these observers exist not in the dimensions of space, but in time. Chains of eyes that fade into obscurity in my painting symbolize this constant expansion of limitless thought, the entropy of identity.
An exploration of time, evolution, and chaos, (eye)dentity evolved over several months. Each time I sat in front of the canvas, an entirely new painting emerged, in a continuous explorative process that challenged me to relinquish control and attachment as I painted from the subconscious. As I learned about entropy and the universe's continuous expansion, the canvas reflected my thoughts. Increasingly chaotic lines and swirls inevitably covered the previous layers, just as they started to make sense. A depiction of my face was overcome completely by an expanding mass of chaotic patterns in black, that grew outward from a cosmic explosion in white. The ultimate painting , influenced by Jorge Luis Borges' essay “Time and J.W. Dunne”, reflects the overwhelming limitlessness of identity. Borges describes Dunne's notion of infinite regression thus: because we are cognizant not only of what we observe but also of our observing identity (A), we must have a second identity (B) that observes (A). The pattern continues; there must be an identity (C) to observe identity (B), and so on to infinity. Dunne posits that these observers exist not in the dimensions of space, but in time. Chains of eyes that fade into obscurity in my painting symbolize this constant expansion of limitless thought, the entropy of identity.
"For Augustine, human time is experienced and measured through the sequential syllables of a sacred poem, the psalm that he already knows before he begins reciting it."
-J. Hillis Miller, "Time in Literature"
-J. Hillis Miller, "Time in Literature"