Small Works
Artist Genealogy for Research Presentations
Janine Antoni
Ana Mendieta
Yves Klein
Artist Statement (most recent draft)
Through my assignments of context and content to my constructions, which assimilate into narratives of interacting symbols, I attempt to emphasize the primal relation of humanity to the rest of nature - where a self inflicted separation permeates, reflecting upon the state of empathy in which individuals fluctuate between. With eternal grasping towards differentiation and a malleable form of self identification, our species metamorphosizes into a nearly singular, massed being of accumulated constrictions and shrouds to its existence; this is contradictory in the manner which extends beyond connecting strings of value to survival, with reflection upon the generalized vision of culture. In order to analyze the deconstructions and sidelong overs of reality, as well as the subsequent manifestations in which all preceding and succeeding segments of time are influenced through perception, I compose representations and structures, both through two and three dimensionalities, which heighten consciousness of the physicality of the observer. This is intended to alleviate the weight of the proximity to the extremities attached, in a manner which instills these additives nearly as intrinsic in our minds, to our nature - while confronting them with the limitations to our ephemeral shells. With documentations of nuances, through empathy of line and attempts at depths of attention to shifts in sensitivity of the slight movements of contours, I embolden awareness of the habituations and normalizations which flow within our existence, directly leading to degrees of desensitized passivity. The physicality of our primitive beings may be evident within the drifting speeds at which we feel the movement of time’s hand. Humanity’s self-motivated separation from nature’s rest, lends to the trundling passivity, which erupts warps in time, and binds us sparingly to the earth.
