A Walk Through
Five artists explore urban remnants and forgotten space

I am participating in a show at the Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley (116 Kroeber Hall) from July 14th–27th, 2009.
The OPENING RECEPTION is on Friday, July 17th, from 7–10pm.

This is my response to the theme of the show:

A Walk Through is an investigation into the dissolution of structure, both societal and physical. It is an artistic examination into modes of operation whose end results are obfuscated by social and cultural factors.

Infinite:Finite is a print on paper that deals with perception and the division between image and viewer. The faint landscapes beg the question of the very existence of form. Infinite:Finite is an exploration of both the perspectival space, a forced divide between viewer and the representation of tangible terrain, and a question of the significance of action when social, economic, and cultural concerns can be reduced to a distant speck on the horizon.

Gun is the reduction of an action to the human hand –a search for reality. It is an exercise in futility and a map of the accumulation of debris over time. The absurdity of throwing ash acts as a metaphor for man’s obsession with the unattainable, offering a glimpse at base human nature. The aggression of the gun is echoed by the hand’s sudden arrival into the frame, yet its insufficiency is quickly revealed by the ephemeral nature of the ash. Gun demonstrates a discontinuity in the paradigm of cause and effect, where the hostile action produces a passive result.
(Gun is a collaboration between Dominic Nguyen & David Whitaker)

On a side note: I also had the opportunity to design the flier. The graphic is based on an aerial view of an ad hoc parking situation outside of any formal environment. It makes me wonder if the tendency towards order exists when the structure does not. What is it that conditions humanity into parking in straight lines?

Hope to see you there!

Click for a PDF of the catalogue:
A Walk Through Show Catalogue