Installation shots of Project Space at Harmon Art Lab (Dec/Jan 2012)

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Today's creative mind at war with the senses?

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Ever since I first read Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation, it has been reassuring to briefly revisit it from time to time. Other than an escape from, or a protest to the standard of theoretical art, it's a refreshment - an exercise to distinguish the mind from (which is possibly domineering in relation to) the senses.

"Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art"

-- Susan Sontag (Against Interpretation, 1964)

On Installation Process (Going Verbal)

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As with each artist exhibiting, Harmon Art Lab asked me to participate in a Q & A about the work and its process. My responses can be seen on the HAL website page here.

Working title: Born on the Edge of Yesterday

Opening reception/continued events for Harmon Art Lab exhibit

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The opening reception on Friday, December 9th had a healthy turnout. I saw lots of people I knew or knew about, and got to the chance to discuss at length my installation piece and the process involved. It was good for Peter and his work as well - the first exhibit of paintings by this prolific man since May 2010.

More is being done to my site-specific piece since the response from that event. I am committed to bringing the whole project - which covers the walls and floor of a whole room - to the point of being as distilled and clear as possible. Detailed documentation is being conducted all along the way!