I’ll be in show 1 of the Senior Exhibition in Cress Gallery at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. It’s been a very long road preparing for it, but finally, the opening’s tonight.
I’ve posted before about my piece, and it’s been a learning experience creating it. Video isn’t necessarily a medium I pictured myself working with, but it’s been a learning experience.
Here’s my artist’s statement:
“The mind can imagine scenarios so vivid it distorts perceptions of reality. There are, somehow, certain ideas and images that are universally seen as disturbing, even without insinuating any immediate danger or bodily harm.
A dark hole, a camera angle, an eerie sound, or an overly lifelike mannequin, human beings have seemingly instinctual, visceral reactions to many of these ideas and imagery. But why? What is the mechanism in the back of my mind that tells me to avoid, at all costs, the ceramic doll at grandma’s house – the one on the closet shelf in the spare bedroom? Is the media to blame, or is it something more primal at the center of our shared consciousness that shapes our instinctual, irrational, imperceptible fears?”
All of the artists will be speaking at 4:30 today, and the show officially opens at 5:30. There are going to be a lot of great artists and designers there and a lot of fantastic pieces, so it’s definitely worth a look.
