“Spots”
In life, gestures reflect conditions. We use gestures to communicate, engage with and express these conditions in real time. We participate in shared experiences and impact our ever expanding universe. My art making practice is a reflection of the human condition, with gestures that express present moments, instances or “spots”. In this being practice I am situated in spots that reflect the ever present conditions of our world and in being present in a spot I am able to reflect (on) how the spot operates, who I am in the spot, why, and align my participatory gestures to reflect my expression. Through this practice I experience who I am and why, how the world is and why, and what to do about it, in spots.
Situated by tea, paper, and ash, I make gestures. The materials around me reflect my present spot. I drink tea, smoke and draw through life’s spots where there is luck and control, freedom and restraint, instinct and analysis, fear and bravery, danger and potential, all at play. We move from spot to spot with introspection into the complexities of its conditions and introspection into our own subjective gestures and approaches. I gesturally spill and apply tea, ash, and other materials that surround me on paper, situating pen mark making, reflecting spots where chance meets deliberate gesture. These spots take place on the Earth that orbits the sun, elliptically. This orbital flow of the forces of nature is reflected in the flow of a no limit texas holdem poker tournament. As less and less players remain, the tournament flows elliptically from turn to turn where players experience spots that reflect their shared human condition in the ever changing present. These spots include experiences of expansive and exponential growth, deliberate action and choice making, calculation and sensory intake, entropic loss and exposure to systems of power, emotion and luck. In playing poker and making art I am a participant in the universe’s expansion, taking action in real time, connecting to others, the world and to myself, to express the human condition with moves, gestures, and artworks that reflect ever changing ever present spots.