Youe remember Adam’s Periphery? Well, it now has its thought bubble installed, and needs something to fill it. John Baca said that this could make or break the piece, as it is the part that will still resonate quite literally after the viewer cranks it, since it quivers when everything else is still.
Brinton Jaecks came up with this idea at Lisa’s party on Okie.
I like its inanity, and the opportunity to take this thing into concentric layers of increasing level of detail (the matador scene would have to be crafted with much more precision than the big Lincoln Scape, and if I then do the obvious and build a scene ont the monitor screen, I will have yet another level of detail) as a subtle way of surprising people, plus then i have to get good at carving. However, I want to make sure the semiotic loop* to this thing is complete. In other words, I may love inanity and uselessness and conceptual gaps, but i still want everything in this piece to have a purpose that is woven into its narrational structure.
Whoah! Where did I pull that term out of?
As Mathew Ronay points out, pure nonsense is easy, and I want to be sure I transcend that somehow:
Anyway, I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK AND IDEAS! *Paul Badger introduced me to that term“The work definitely does not illustrate ideas. At least not explicitly concrete ones. It elicits a response. If someone is lazy they would misunderstand the setup as nonsensical or a non sequitur. Instead, what is offered is a chance to create something revealing out of something that is trying to lose its self-consciousness.”