So what is this artwork really about?
It is not longer about the spiritual journey that the walking track talks about. But instead has become a critique of the issues of personal participatory experience. One filtered through technology
The more I work in recording the walking track the more I realise the issues and short fall of trying to record an experience. In particular trying to record a spiritual experience. In a sence it parallels the televised church services, as opposed to actually going to one. The purpose of church, fellowship, "when two or more come together" is lost and the experience muted. And if we look it from a secular point of view, the experience of life itself in the digital age.
This use of technology is designed to block out the surrounding world, to create a personal experience. But one that is highly orchestrated.
Choosing a title.
For this particular artwork, a title is key to understanding the work. The title must provide enough to
prompt the viewer to contemplate
Title : our needs (of artwork)
I want you to think about the line
Its edge
Its formal elements
its disconnection from the natural enviroment
its symbolism for the human touch
our need for the straight edge... the path... for safety (as the line provides a barrier) ...for the beginning and
the end, for the destination
the line is inviting,
Title : walking in christ
Title : faith walk
in my work i am critiqing contemporary society through the lense of faith... i am not interested in
contemporary events, they are irrelevant in the grand scheme.. will it matter in a month, a year, ten years, fifty years, a hundred, how about a thousand. A good example is gerhard richters, october series(the one with the woman) for many of us the event has been forgotten, it is out of your time. What I am intersted in is the key elements of the human condition, and their current state within our culture. In this work I am interested in our needs, and I am using line as an artistic tool for dialogue. Inviting the viewer to question what their needs are
My intention is to create an artwork that brings into question the viewers beliefs of life and death.
Title:our need
I want you to think about line, its edge. Our need for the straight edge... for the path... for the destination
I am not interested in the trivial concerns of gender politics, the body, colonialism etc... my interests
instead lie not in the temperal but instead in the eternal and transendental.
Video title: this is your life ?
this is life?
your spiritual journey? your journey ?
the transendental experience
due to the interactive aspect, each "journey" is unique, but the beginning and destination has been
predetermined.
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