basearts -portfolio

Photographs, Drawings, Notations
Past, Present and Future (Tense)

Portfolio: - http://www.basearts.com/portfolio.htm

Play - My interest has always been the playful rearrangement of references and the convergence of ideas in an effort to elucidate sensorial memories or experiences. Photographs, drawings and notations - references and thoughts - ideas - cast into a frame and forming relationships. Tools, apparatus and concepts constructed or arranged in a desire to encourage meaningful play. Or a play of meaning. My work represents the consistent interest in how an image or aesthetic experience becomes meaningful both from the perspective of the viewer and as the maker.

My process in art making evolves from the belief that the meaning of an image is not limited to the physical characteristics we perceive, nor the shared cultural experiences - but is the unique convergence of past and present personal experiences, associations, thoughts, emotions and opinions we bring to the image or experience of a work. Photography appeals to me as a medium because of a perceived indexical relationship to the real. The specificity it elicits by drawing into a work references, parameters of context (time, place, point of view) make for a rich and complex network of relationships upon which to build conceptual and aesthetic meaning.

I consider myself less of a photographer more of a conceptual artist utilizing the photographic image as a means to investigate my experience. I’m interested in the overlap between personal vision and visual aesthetic convention within the tradition of the photographic image. Through the photographic process, both conceptually and tangibly, I am able to explore a personal relationship to the “artistic”. In many of these series there is a level of challenge to an existing convention that I visually address. Through investigation of the image, the frame, conceptual experiments in redefining, reframing or disruption of various conventions and photographic expectations, I rediscover my own interest or response and in specific serialized works define the conventions of my own aesthetic.

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“MEMO:” , 2004-7
- http://www.basearts.com/work/memo.html

Through these series, memo: and architectural elements I am interchanging the notion of a language of signs, symbolism in the arts and religion and the corporate memo – all of which presume an understanding within a closed system of meaning.
Symbols drawn in illustration of the impact of time, travel and diverse experiences on memory and my own sense of identity. There are implied references to place, art history, spirituality and culture. Making a poetic form of a memorandum - abbreviated and or understood within a shared context.

The meaning between image, drawing and text as elements of linguistic theory.
Language as a shared secret or an internal MEMO.
Reference to art making and the act of framing events and experiences.

Digital Inkjet
Proof Dimensions: 8.5x11
Final Print Dimensions: 24x56

“Architectural Elements”, 2004-6
- http://www.basearts.com/work/elements.html

Exposure to natural forces, primary forces. Making sense of making meaningful relationships of art making with natural forces at work and play in nature. Theoretically, there is an engagement with elemental principles of architecture and installation.

Digital Inkjet
Proof Dimensions: 8.5x11
Final Print Dimensions: 24x56

“Perceptual Apparatus” , 1992-96
- http://www.basearts.com/work/percept/index.htm

Altering physiologically processes toward the potential exchange of /or communication of an experience through vision versus the presentation of or representational image.

Relationship established between my own experience and the visual experience.

Encouraged viewer to actually see things differently.
Eyeglasses as metaphor for an altered or shared point of view.

Silver Prints/Sculptural Elements
Proof Dimensions: 8.5x11
Final Print Dimensions: 8.5x11 +installed elements

"Beach" , 1988 –
http://www.basearts.com/work/beachweb/index.htm

An image/text puzzle/poem made of cross references between my relationship at the time and our experience living and working on the beach, characters acting out a relationship and staged on the beach and the notion that there is a universal language of signs that could represent the experience of being a man and a woman in a relationship. The beach as a metaphor for life or a shared experience.

Relationships between images.
Relationships between methods of communication - image - text - diagrams.
Encouraged play by the participants or the viewers in the sand boxes or small beaches provided.

Written

analogues
analogues II
analogues III