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Dubhe Carreño Gallery Contemporary Ceramic Art |
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Brian Boldon Artist’s Statement “Third Person"
My most recent work explores body philosophy. I am particularly interested in Cartesian Dualism's mind-body separation and impact this has on our ability to truly connect with our personal perceptual experience of the world as it happens, in the moment. My work utilizes personal perceptual experience as the basis for exploring the larger issue of cultural systems that we create in the wake of the absent body. Of primary interest is our use of electronic technology as an amplifier and perpetuator of dualist thought regarding the body. Real-time electronic visual "experience" removed from the physical body in the world is producing a third person conception of the body, detached from perception, based on inference and abstraction.
I create a synthesized language of electronic image and ceramic form to question the sustainability of the absent body. My work offers fluidity between body presence and absence through the materiality of clay, physical phenomenon such as gravity, tension, shadow, and digital images which exist as visual projections, dematerial, concept removed from perception. By employing analogy and relational thinking, my synthesis of seemingly contradictory media serves as a means for exploring the nature of perception and action of the body in the world.
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