Watkins Thesis Exhibition

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Lie Before Us pt.2

These are the wind chimes that I found lying on the ground in my grandmother's back yard.

My friend Theopholis is staying with my roommate and I until he heads off to a monastery in a few weeks.  If he is accepted after a few months of being there, he will stay there for the rest of his life. Theophil is twenty four years old.

The night I brought the chimes home, the first thing Theophil told me was that they reminded him of the Orthodox call to prayer.

Coincidentally, the week before,  I was looking up some work by Pierre Huyghe and came across a piece that he did called Wind Chime (After Dream). Huyghe's piece was inspired by John Cage's 1948 work called Dream. (see video below)

I find this all very interesting and inspiring.

Theophil performing a 10 min. score with the wind chimes.

(56 kg)

These are the load balancing weights for our New Holland skid loader. They hook onto the rear of the machine to add weight for when you are lifting a heavy load. It keeps it from tipping forward but it also makes the machine more susceptible to flipping backwards if you drive it up a steep hill or trailer.

They have been in the back of my truck for two years. They weigh 26kg apiece.

The yellow reminds me of the highlighter I used in my old Bible.

Secret of Secrets

 "I am letting you into the secret of all secrets, mirrors are gates through which death comes and goes. Moreover if you see your whole life in a mirror you will see death at work as you see bees behind the glass in a hive."

-Heurtebise- from Jean Cocteau's Orpheus

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Representation

— n

1. the act or an instance of representing or the state of being represented

2. anything that represents, such as a verbal or pictorial portrait

3. anything that is represented, such as an image brought clearly to mind

4. the principle by which delegates act for a constituency

5. a body of representatives

6. contract law  a statement of fact made by one party to induce another to enter into a contract

7. an instance of acting for another, on his authority, in aparticular capacity, such as executor or administrator

8. a dramatic production or performance

9. ( often plural ) a statement of facts, true or alleged, esp oneset forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation

10. linguistics  an analysis of a word, sentence, etc, into its constituents: phonetic representation

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What Do Images Want?

My grandfather will be eighty years old this St. Patrick's day. He still goes to the barber shop every Wednesday and Saturday morning to tell jokes, talk politics, and the Age of Grace under the apostle Paul. He also cuts hair.

One Saturday morning last Fall I walked in to say hello, after a few minutes of conversation he handed me six boxes of ink pens. They were cheaply made, brittle, and red. He told me to take them to school and hand them out to my schoolmates.

I took them to school but I never handed them out. I melted the pen tops in a mound with a heat gun.

I really want them to have a second chance as art. I have used them in at least six different works trying to see if they belonged. So far they have not, they still sit in the studio. I look at them and think about them every day wondering what they want.

If you keep asking someone what they want and they refuse to answer, do you eventually take silence as an answer? Are they perfectly content just as they are?

What do images want?  Sometimes they want nothing.

Glorified Irreversible Fawning

Ghost of Annlee

Chihuly

I went with my mom to see the Chihuly exhibition at Cheekwood. Most attendants were more interested in photographing themselves with the work than looking at it. I found this very interesting.

My phone has a built in camera.