I think this installation is one of the highlights of my professional art practice!

I wish to thank you personally for your efforts in helping me ‘stage’ HABITAT @ immerse. It could not have happened without the skills each of you have contributed to the project. I am deeply grateful.

It is no easy task to set up an exhibition with so many important aspects – choosing me as an immerse artist, sound design, DVD burning, flat set-up and gallery design, blacking painted surfaces, installation of structures, hanging art, writing for the catalogue, IT expertise, curatorial advice / backup / facilitating, fabricating, recording movies, printing labels, transport, administering, words of encouragement, Opening assistance, general support of the artist, and much more! YOU all made it work!

Year: 2016

Medium: Wood, canvas, paper

This is a new presentation. It combines STACCATTO, ACCESS, and ENCODE. The pattern increases in complexity the further you get to the edges. In a simple version, it suggests more than the eye can see – like that which the Haldron Collider is in the pursuit!

Link: http://nerdist.com/a-tiny-weasel-just-shut-down-the-large-hadron-collider/

Year: 2016

Medium: Wood, Letters, fabric dog

Sent to the doghouse’ is an idiom suggesting punishment and shame for your unpopular actions or attitudes. This top-dog lives on the upper floor, above criticism and the patter of everyday life. Yet, she will never be given the chance to ‘rule’. She has no money, power, or social influence. She makes no promises. Apparently, she has no future in politics. What a lucky dog!

Though the tones between black and white are infinite, it is possible to move from one to the other in six tonal steps – using only fabrics found in the ‘average’ Spotlight Store. We are told the same ‘six step’ dictum often holds true in directly connecting oneself with a famous relative or celebrity. Through the morass of human beings, a linking thread of commonality can be discovered. This may also point to connection with all creation.

Some text relevant to HABITAT:

See every creature as an image or mirror of Divinity. Every creature reveals something about God to us – maybe it is beauty; maybe humour that shines through; maybe simplicity; maybe complexity. With the right eyes of perception, everything reveals something of the divine to us. Matthew Fox on Thomas Aquinas

By dwelling on creatures the mind is inflated to love the divine goodness. We love God and know God in the mirror of God’s creatures. Thomas Aquinas

If we are looking to find the ‘ultimate and noblest perfection in things,’ then look to the whole. Today, we know the order of the universe is a very dynamic order, a rapidly evolving order, an order in motion, an order of the birth, death, and resurrection of galaxies, supermovas, stars, and planets, including earth. We all exist to serve a larger order, the cosmos itself.   Matthew Fox on Thomas Aquinas

Part 2 of 2

What started out as a reasonably simple idea expanded into this soundscape equivalent of a veil of water filling every available airspace between the installations of HABITAT at immerse. After almost twenty (20) years collaborating on sound design with Flossie Peitsch, the output always seems to extend dramatically beyond the small initial idea. This particular piece stretched from three (3) minutes to thirty (30) minutes during the progression of the composition.

This piece unusually uses a forward and backward presentation of the spoken clips. The initial elements of water and wind are also reversed – giving a familiar and yet random quality throughout. The soundscape is designed to be played at low volume. Surprise elements are layered to fit under the melody of the wind in a way that is almost a replacement of one for the other – even though our ears momentarily focus on the added element. A continual destruction and electrification of the original recordings blurs the boundaries between humanity, self and technology which resonates throughout this exhibition.