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SILHOUETTES
& SHADOWS ARTIST COMMENTARY
Shadows provide
proof of our existence.
As silhouettes take
their turns on the wall they speak in a vocabulary sublimely different than the
more familiar language of likeness and resemblance. And this stirs the
imagination when we recognize this dialectic.
The silhouette is
the metadata of presence – the resultant change of incandescence that is
referenced both by our interference and reception to the light.
The shadow is a
physical signature that identifies more than shape and mass – dissolving and
reconstructing in silent percolation.
Amorphic shape
gives way to a momentary glimpse of clarity that the umbered chiaroscuro softly
subdues and takes away.
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Capturing something
vital on paper – like a remote viewer put in contact with scant artifacts to
sense deeper context and distant location - I look beyond the face and the
physiognomy to the luminal information in transition - and often, something
deeper, more surprising, more provocative emerges.
Yet, there is an
unpredictability about this process. I often encounter disturbance – a white
noise that yields little beyond the static surrounding a person – there are
other times when I receive nothing at all.
I am unschooled in
the psychiatric arts and know little about metaphysics of any kind. What I do
is bear witness, like a journalist faithfully transmitting the dialogue
uncovered between the subject and his environment.
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