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Saturday June 6, 2009 4:04 pm

This is a drawing I did for an exhibition at the Wexner Center called Interventions, a response to a class offered to high school students by Ohio State called Art and Environment. Here is a photoset of the exhibition from the Wexner Center's Flickr page.

We were asked to write artist statements to go along with our pieces, and here's what I shat out.
Heh.

The purpose of this is to expose the unity in all things, and to blur the lines and distinctions created by our minds. We have an organizing, categorizing mind that draws lines and discriminates different objects that are somehow separate, and independent from everything else. However, this world of disconnected, discrete objects does not reflect the true nature of reality. Indeed, all ‘objects’ are connected and interrelated, and none can exist independently of one another. Their distinctive qualities depend on their contrast against other objects. Thus, the objects have all been drawn as a network, or a web, where everything is, in some way, connected to everything else.

There are two categories of objects on the page. First, there are ‘artificial’ objects, things created by the hands of man, made in factories, with tools and machines. There are also ‘natural’ objects, things that exist independent of humans, and that can be found in nature just by going outside. The point of combining these two categories into one network is to blur the line between natural and artificial, and to ask the question, ‘Why are man's actions, and the results of those actions, unnatural?’ I find that silicon structures and lithium-ion batteries are just as beautiful and natural as lignin in wood structures and chloroplasts performing photosynthesis.

The objects in this picture were all drawn at different times, from different angles, in different lighting. This represents the infinity of perspectives from which we can view the world, and the relativity of reality. Your truth, your reality depends on the lens through which you view the Universe. The point of drawing all the objects at different times from different perspectives demonstrates the fact that we are always changing, as is our perspective. Nothing is absolute.

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