Thursday, September 29, 2016

Henry Rojas Critique Documentation And Small Works










I guess under the big umbrella of things I’m going to start by acknowledging the interest I have in human relationships. I say human meaning not merely between each other but their general existence and the way they alter space, literal space. In a way my interest is the path that people take in their lives and how it all narrows down to a given moment. I guess this path can be called life but my interest are more specifically related to the way people understand things. Especially things we as a species find hard to understand or grasp. So many times I’ve thought the phrase life is crazy and it is. It’s that driving madness that incites my passion. Not being able to comprehend something brings interest to me and the forms in which people comprehend these things is what I’m trying to capture. Every human views life though their own eyes and we can all associate certain things we know though our own experience. This is called context. Being able to create context in someone’s mind about one subject personal to them and allowing them to associate that to their own memories is my main goal with my work. I feel as though memories are the basis for who we are as people and what we understand is all consisting of memories. Generally my work consist of how people impact each other’s lives creating memories and understandings with each other. It is about meeting someone and becoming a part of their life in the most miniscule of ways to the most powerful and ultimately the way people’s physical and mental states are altered according to the people they come across with on their said path.
A chaotic peace that surrounds us all. Any specific moment is just a buildup of the past giving every event a reason and every reason a moment. I try to reason with things logically, usually if I see the bigger picture it is easier to understand the reason behind it. The way I understand things in my head is based on two main things what we see and what we don’t see. Everything consist of these things. What we see ranges for the physical and the alterations whatever it is we are trying to grasp. What we don’t see is the reason for it, though sometimes it can be physical it often goes unseen or unspoken. Like the saying there are two sides to every story except in my mind there are four two for each individual. Two being the people involved in the situation. Though flattening these interactions into two aspects can ease being able to see a reason for the ordeal there is still an aspect that is neither seen nor understood. It is what we don’t understand. This aspect is what I generally regard as a thing of the universe. Almost like an enigmatic notion existing somewhere beyond anyone’s mind. This aspect is of special interest to me because I’ve never been able to recognize what it is or means. In a way I create everything I make trying to understand why things happen. Why we meet people for the first and last times and the way these encounters affect the rest of our lives. Every person has their own personal universe and their own perception on what their unknown is and the formulae to discovering it varies accordingly.