Nathan
CD’s: enlarged, but not large enough to be records, or at least that’s what I assumed. If that’s the case, perhaps I would have to relate them to the pedestals, since they appear to almost perfectly span two corners of the pedestal’s surface. The problem begins here; in knowing that the pedestals could not have been shaped and sized to fit the CD’s because they have obviously been used many times before and look worn. The CD’s could have been shaped to fit the pedestals, but what would the significance be in that?
The shadows of the pedestals insinuate link them to the television set, partly do to the number of pieces in the room, symmetric placement, and shadows that almost line up with the center of the screen. What I’m wondering is if the relationship is between the two CD’s as a whole and the television set (a relationship between two things) or all three together? intermission relates to records, but the CD’s are not 12.”
I’m confused about how the two CD’s relate to one another. Is there something that I have to get from listening to each one? Also, I’m not familiar with either CD, so I would not know if either one has been altered through photoshop. The re-release date being 2001 for the Beatles album seems significant, but only because you told me that “intermission” comes from Space odyssey 2001.
Allen:
(Light-Shadows; ideas-lightbulbs-light; shadows-black-black paint; drips-thought bubbles-thought text; literal shadows-graphic shadows)
all of the works illustrate a metamorphosis and the list above describes some of the more obvious ones. It seems, because of the number of works, and how they are arranged in no sequential order, that each piece relates to one another while simultaneously resisting summations or gestalts. Each work is a change of state or comment on another, but no two add up to equal another.
This work reminds me of Keith Tyson show at Pace Wildenstein:
The difference in Tyson’s work is that he’s using well known examples of other artists work, however, there’s something interesting in how he replicates the same examples with others i.e. Sol Lewitt with Robert Gober vs. Sol Lewitt with M.C. Escher. Anyway, the organizational methods that he implements: grids, sculptural assemblages, and repeated tropes might be interesting for you to look at. Also look up his new work: “Fractal Dice.”
