Spell of the Sensuous chapter 6 response

Historic documentation: Black pigment ink, laser print

Recording mythic events in writing establishes, as well, a new experience of the permanence, fixity, and un repeatable quality of those events. Once fixed on the written surface, mythic events are no longer able to shift their form to fit current situations. Current happenings are thus robbed of their mythic, storied resonance; when the myths are written down, contemporary events acquire a naked specificity and uniqueness hitherto unknown. Page 188.

A drawing documenting my night. Every event was written as I was experiencing it. The events get progressively more human as reference to the faux personalization of contemporary documentation. Every event is contained within its own image as a reference to the fractal nature of historical repetition. 

Spell of the Sensuous chapter 7 response

A drawing of the air around me 30 min: graphite on paper

"Air is the most pervasive presence I can name, enveloping, embracing, and caressing me both inside and out, moving in ripples along my skin, flowing between my fingers, swirling around my arms and thighs, rolling in eddies along the roof of my mouth, slipping ceaselessly through throat and trachea to fill the lungs, to feed my blood, my heart, my self." Page 225.

This is a self-portrait on a base level, but the idea of spatial existence is deconstructed. Although it is a drawing of myself from life, it is more focused on the visual perception of self and how visual information is essentially just a sensory reading of proportional, physical, and biological indicators.

30 minute indoor installation.

30 Min Landscape Installation

One of the main themes of this piece is altering expendable objects that don't ever seem to change. I picked two bricks that live outside of the art building at Flagler. These bricks would be easy to replace but they have been in the same place since I remember.

Milk is a metaphor commonly used in my work as a symbol of cultural lust and the extraction of consciousness. The idea of milk teeth revolves around a certain conditioning to this lust for insignificance, almost showing a reversion to Freud's oral psychosexual phase in which one only has the mental capability to worry about themselves.

The white lighter was a found object which has an eerie cultural significance and also symbolizes man's greatest innovations reduced to an expendable plastic object.