1976 Body English (Of ontological Territory)

A Proustian preoccupation with the body to evoke personal history. We live with a diluted identity, the compelling power of anonymity. Often-passive witnesses of a triumphant system encompassing. These works deal with wry reminders of biological idiosycrasy. We seldom note the true significance of those things that are granted by nature and consequently permanent. Details lend a thing its identity. I found that a prime mover of pathos, something as simple as an arm or a hand could have poignancy, in the language of marginal structures. Billboards, light posts and traffic lights, articulate the body. The weight of their presence is wordless and introspective. I refer to a center of visual gravity. As for the body. It does not lie “The human face, the collective memory. Characterized by the will to self-erasure, the seemingly ordinary moment remains.

I explore the myth of art as a process hidden in everything. The manner in which we invest objects with meaning. Oblivion hides under the forgotten in culture rather than in nature.

These works plumb the mysteries of identity and desire. Hatted men in penumbral paintings let subjectivity dilate the contrasts between the incompleteness of the depicted moment. An essential marker in life, the hat, like the glove, expanding beyond the bounds that usually restrict it, focus on obvious trappings of ethnic identity. The hat connects the sophisticate and artifice. Our fascination with altering our external selves as a narrative web.

"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length." Robert Frost

87. BRIMS

Hatted men in penumbral paintings let subjectivity dilate the contrasts between the incompleteness of the depicted moment. An essential marker in life, the hat, like the glove, expanding beyond the bounds that usually restrict it, focus on obvious trappings of ethnic identity. The hat connects the sophisticate and artifice. Our fascination with altering our external selves as a narrative web.

85. GHOST ROOM

An evocation of a waiting room’s inert to convey the continuum of life. Ritualistic function dominates a spiritual lavabo with the bed as symbol of conception, birth and death. A spectral quality of simulacra suggests the ironic isolation of a very crowded place. The unravelment of fabric from the vertical to the horizonal axis, like false displays of emotion or the function of humor. Tension exists between the desire to expose and to concealment of another. These works are splice replacement of bodily absence in the residual opprobrium of transition.

86. HALO OF GLASS

We look down at a sea of men in fedoras that are looking away from us, hidden by there hats. Oblivious to being observed, life unfolds a shell distancing the wearer from the intimate memories. Simple moments, being and the nothingness that forever brackets it. The vehicle of being as spectacle of human singularity captures the dignity. A judicious obscurity, veil more disquieting concerns, the end of life and intrauterine bliss. The form sustains a mythic presence, symbolic of origin. The past reveals the present in an attempt to make time, as in Piaget’s words, “experienced internally, external and conscious. W. H. Auden’s poem, “As I Walked Out One Evening”, vaguely life leaks away. The blue tonality is a symbol of appropriated memories as a fragile skin.