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Below is a brief Artists statement by Doris describing how her languages lexicon has been evolving in her artwork during her 3 Journeys of Light show.
My artist statement will describe to you the why and how of my artwork. The "why" of my artwork is that I use artwork to explore my long term goal of creating a way to express thought, emotion and experience. The "how" I explore this adventure is by creating an evolving language where I systematically over the past 30 years have been adding letters to my alphabet and syntax to my language. My artist statement then describes how the pieces in this show are demonstrating the next letters and syntax in my language followed by some conjecture of what will be added to the language in the future.
When describing my art I start by telling people what my current paradigm is (the why). A paradigm describes the state of a science or field by looking at the goals, the tools used, the language used to talk about the issues. This gives a clearer picture of where I am coming from and where I am going. My focus is to create a way of creating a specific thought, emotion and experience in an observer. By using this evolving language (the tools or the how) I am able to systematically control these elements of expression with the observer. The goal of each show is to introduce a new body of work where I explore adding a letter to the alphabet to playing with the syntax of a sentence.
As you look at the evolution of my artwork you will see the evolution of the language. On a simple level an observer will see the letters added to my alphabet such as color, shape, size, material, dimensionality, from show to show. Entire sentences can be seen as the construction of lines of furniture or commissioned sculpture. The best part of systematically developing a language is that it can be applied to a variety of situations with a consistent set of results.
This installation "The 3 Journeys of Light" demonstrates the next evolution of the language. For the past few years I have been adding light as a letter to the alphabet. I also have added the virtual canvas - Plexiglas louvers where the art happens in the reflections in front of the wall instead of the surface. Also I have been working with light going behind the wall with the infinity boxes. Now these letters have been extended by adding more syntax to them and the addition of more letters.
First the "Neon Playground II" adds our new letter of controllable motion. With computer controlled motion I can now make the virtual canvas interact with the observer without the observer having to go up and touch the art. This creates the more passive experience with the artwork changing in time with the observer. In the future I see adding another letter to this area where the computer can sense who is in the room with a detector and react to people moving in the room.
Second the "Voyage to Infinity" adds more syntax to the infinity boxes by mass producing smaller more shippable and cost effective boxes. With this new syntax I can construct a larger sentence as you can see by the sculpture made up of 27 boxes in a row. From this state I can see the possibility of adding the motion letter demonstrated in the ?Neon Playground II? to control large quantities of the mirror boxes swinging the space behind the box in rhythm together.
Third the ?Emerging Rhythms? explores the new letter I am adding to the alphabet. Here I am using computer animation techniques to add motion through time to installation based art. Using this letter I will be able to give life to the artwork bringing information off the wall into the room. In the future this letter is the most intriguing. From the simple experiments demonstrated in this exhibit I can already see the possibilities of applying this letter to other letters and sentences I have done in the past (metal, neon, stellar, soundboards etcetera).
In summary I have described "why" I create artwork, to create a controllable thought, emotion, and experience in an observer. I then described the "how" I keep control which is to create a language made up of an alphabet and syntax used to create whole sentences that express the thought, emotion and experience. Then I talked about the current state of the language is as demonstrated by "The 3 Journeys of Light" installation/show and possible directions on how the language may evolve.
