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This new video short, Instillation at Boulder Creek, is greatly influenced by some of the classes I am auditing at the University of Colorado. I made it anticipating my Energy Show along with 2 other artists at the St. John’s Art Gallery this November and December.

Mark Amerika:
Time varies–it is speeded up, slowed down and reversed, as joggers and bikers run the creek path. Images are connected like the individuals followed in the movie, “Slacker”

Jim Palmer:
The Jungian influence of the shadow and the negative space as well as a subtle spinning rose mandala. Water the symbol of the collective unconscious. The male runner moves toward his anima shadow. The heroic size of the images suggests the hero’s quest. But you can’t help ignore the Freudian Cali Lily implication of sexuality.

Dan Boord:
Notice little things especially the pigeons in the last scene. The ABCA’ form of the music, the subtle repeats. The participation in the video of the artist, the dance of the installer.

Julie Murray:
The poetic association of the images.

Don Yannacito: Speeding up and slowing down the pace, repetition of images, poetic association of images. Extreme close-ups so the source is not easily identified.

Flowers so ephemeral, yet timeless.

Oil 30″ x 30″
I remember daisies as a child; they haven’t changed as I have gotten older. My representation of them has; now they are larger, heroic in size, a contemporary take, a spatial shift.

Now it is so easy

to put words, images, sound

out there,

there are now more writers

than readers. [fact]

Who/what are we writing for?

Write to find out what is right

or to maintain what is wrong–

what right is that?

Words, words, words,

If everyone with a thought

picture, photo, sound–

journals in the new media

Where is the art?

Copy and paste–

What’s the difference from plagiarism?

Encorporation

He swallowed me whole
Then wondered why
He has
a stomach ache.

Where’s the beef?

Is it too small

or not small enough

to digest
into your own?

The Trashcan School of Art:
Garbage in, garbage out.
Can you make a sow’s ear
into a silk purse?

J.H.Poincare (1854-1912), (cited in H.E.Huntley, The
Divine Proportion, Dover, 1970)
The mathematician does not study pure
mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he
delights in it because it is beautiful

See more of my art at Best of Colorado Art Festival Sept 17 and 18, 2006  North side of Canyon at 10th Street in downtown Boulder, CO

What happened to

aesthetics in contemporary art?

Is the beautiful dead?

What happens when the concept

is more important

than the object conceited?

Is it just the conceit

of the author?

Maybe what we need
is less words.

Digital Sonnet 2001

John G. Young

Strange to write to an unknown reader for the first time, entering the blogsphere. Who is reading this, besides me, seeing my thoughts?