constructing a vision
Constructing A Vision For Success With An Aim Toward Achieving The Very Top Of The Socio-Economic Structure, 2017-18
"Our needs are constructed rather than natural" -Jean Baudrillard
In "Constructing a Vision" our protagonist, a studious child who is on a mission to succeed attempts to construct a magical monolith, a symbolic tower of advanced knowledge, wealth and social status, or a modern day Tower of Babel? The series includes thematically presented multi panel narrative with a subtext that reveals inherent ambiguities inviting open-ended interpretation. It attempts to find a sense of truth, that which may be present between fact and fantasy by utilizing/referencing narrative and cinematic techniques. Transcendence as a reoccurring theme and motif where everyday objects often appear as vehicles and/or metaphors that facilitate a realization of an alternative/paranormal realm removed from reality and everyday existence, in one sense the jenga blocks serve a theoretical function, or a process of undergoing a transfiguration where reality is augmented.
The"American Dream" as one would suspect exists in the gray areas between fact/fiction, myth/reality and are underlying themes and to mediate between dichotomies. Informed and drawing from key Dada/Surrealist tropes; transcendence, dream imagery, chance elements and methods, investigations into the subconscious, as well as narrative strategies in service to ambiguous meaning, or unanswered questions. The open-ended message is to be part hopeful, cynical, sarcastic, absurd, or even futile in an existential sense where success may be determined by the way it can be interpreted. If disbelief is suspended, it's message can be optimistic. In relation to life's meaning, and in conjunction with education, language, learning, knowledge all we really have of life's meaning are possibilities of the transcendental, mystical, infinite and unknown.
Large Scale Works
(Digital c-prints mounded on birchwood panels)
