Untitled (Dec. 29, 1993) haphazardly records two seemingly simple tasks, the operation of a home-video camera and the safe use of a firearm. The lens-cap is mistakenly left on the camera, and the often tense exchange between the father and son participants is not seen but heard. With the camera on auto-focus, their actions, abstracted by the plastic lens-cap, create a pulsating orifice, aperture or target of shadow and light. After successive shots are fired, the son flees the scene with the camera, and the turbulence of the impaired image seems to express the unsettling implications of the event. While the image fluctuates, the on-screen date-stamp remains invariable.
Daniel Chapman, a web developer, and I broke ground on the site June 8, 2015 and constructed and reconstructed it as our schedules allowed. My ambition was to create a comprehensive space to house my art and corresponding activities, which include writing, teaching, screenings and studio visits. The site also encompasses my work in the field of contemporary psychoanalysis, and includes links to other places of interest. Images of works from and installation views of exhibitions in most cases represent a portion of what was shown. Titles and details for individual works will be posted subsequently. The site will be updated on an ongoing basis. As the earth of the art world continues to slide, and we rise and fall via our devices, it's here we come to be.
Technical specifications for the site are as follows: for back-end development, we used Rails with a Postgres database with rspec for testing; AWS and Heroku for hosting of the files and site. For the front-end work, traditional javascript and jQuery work, with Sass for design.
I’m grateful to Daniel for his expertise, creativity, and commitment. For more information about Daniel and his work, click here.