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ARTIST STATEMENT
What Price Progress?
Archaeologists uncover
unknown objects from the past and demystify their meaning with the best
scientific reasoning from the present. In my art, I am an archaeologist
working in reverse order. I approach familiar,
known objects from the present (some that are imbued with personal or
collective memory) and represent them as mysterious relics from the
past, who's meaning must then be interpreted by the viewer. I select and
juxtapose objects, then arrange them within a new context that mimics the
antique charts and diagrams from science past. This reordering and
re-contextualization invites the viewer not only to interpret the meaning
of the combined image, but allows them to generate new meaning. The main
purpose for creating the work in this show was to contemplate and analyze
the imbalanced relationships between consumption and society; and society
to its own understanding of itself. The conclusion that I arrived at is
this: buried beneath our comfort and security there are dangers to our
existence as individuals and as a society. There is a price for progress,
and it's about due.
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