"Turning Back Time"
Artist Statement
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction”
-Pablo Picasso
Looking backwards can be difficult in order to see something in its original form. Opposing speeds and opposing behavior in the act of destruction can be a helpful reminder that there is not only one kind of person who can have trouble tracing back time. When something is analyzed, and broken down into pieces, it is easier to put it all back together to better understand something as a whole. This is when the creation of each individual’s understanding occurs.
-Pablo Picasso
Looking backwards can be difficult in order to see something in its original form. Opposing speeds and opposing behavior in the act of destruction can be a helpful reminder that there is not only one kind of person who can have trouble tracing back time. When something is analyzed, and broken down into pieces, it is easier to put it all back together to better understand something as a whole. This is when the creation of each individual’s understanding occurs.
Materials Used: Xerox Paper, fishing wire, video
Execution: Paper sculpture suspending from the ceiling that turns into stack of paper with lots of crumbled paper around the base of a pedestal. Video is projected above the paper sculpture.
Execution: Paper sculpture suspending from the ceiling that turns into stack of paper with lots of crumbled paper around the base of a pedestal. Video is projected above the paper sculpture.
Installation Image Gallery
Time Project Description
Time Duration: Using one or more cameras, document yourself engaged in an extended activity. Emphasize or repeat a "gesture" or "action" until its original meaning is lost, or morphs into something else. The performative action should be repeated for an extensive period of time in order to subvert itself. The time frame is to be determined by you. Presentation and location must be considered. Each event of the installation must be considered.
Artist Influences
Martha Rosler
Specifically, Martha's video "Semiotics in the Kitchen" was a big inspiration with this piece because it influenced me to use simple everyday objects. I was interested in using everyday objects to destroy each piece of paper to make it more relatable to everyone. The way Martha demonstrates each object in a violent way relates to my choice of destroying each piece of paper. Martha is important to study in relation to time because she simplifies the use of each object by making it seem a little more violent than it is and showing its use through her energy and motions. Overtime, the viewer gets a sense of understanding each object's energy. I wanted to show the different energy two opposite people (tube top with tattoos and scrub shirt with long sleeves) with the same objects, both destroying something, but with different energy and speeds associated with each person. Therefore, I took Martha's video of Semiotics in the Kitchen an little further by pushing different behavior and personalities.
Hubert Duprat
Duprat has influenced me in this project by his process of creating. The way he completes an artwork and then traces the genealogy of his ideas through influences is how I worked through this project. Duprat inspired me to take hold of a medium and being working with it to see where the medium can take me. Duprat's work with the Caddisflies influenced me in creating my time project because of the way the insects created something overtime, and then he would not sell the artwork jewelry. To create something with the intentions of only the creation influenced me to destroy paper and put it in reverse merely for the experience. To physically obtain the reversal effect of reforming the paper after the destruction is not possible, just as obtaining one of Duprat's Caddisfly jewelry pieces.
Caddisfly Jewelry
Installation Trials
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