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It's not your ideas, or the technique that
carries them out. It's the subject you chose. Pollock's work has gathered a
critique to itself that has yet to be plumbed, as what made him more than
just someone who dripped paint onto canvas remains a mystery. I'd like to see
more of what you're doing, but maybe using other
fulcrums.
-Joel
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 9:03
AM
Subject: Re: ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT
That's okay, JW. Everybody is certainly welcome to critique the
work any way you like. For me, the piece is somewhat about taking a known
entity and plunging it ever more deeply into chaos through a rigorous, logical
process that a guy like Pollock would have shunned. So it’s playing on various
motivational “poles” that are forced to coexist in an uneasy equilibrium. I
think maybe the original would make this aspect clearer -- the web image is a
drastic reduction.
With this and other works, I seem to be in the
process of creating a collection of Photoshop filters that don’t really do
anything that anybody would ever use. If art can be said at times to be about
taking something useful and rendering it useless by pointing it to it as art
(the Duchamp methodology), then my designing a Photoshop-type filter (they
aren’t yet filters, but could be) that nobody would ever find a reason to use
and saying that it’s art seems to be an updated extension of that idea, yes?
Ah, well, it amuses me at least. I can’t expect everybody to share my
sensibility.
And
thanks jmcs3. It’s always welcome to hear from you!
m
On Aug 7, 2005, at
8:35 AM, Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
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neither is your comment
it is not about the
'one' piece
, it is about the flow of
experiments
jmcs3
Joel Weishaus wrote:
As someone who likes your work, I don't find this piece
interesting.
-Joel
----- Original Message -----
From:
"mwp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005
9:29 PM
Subject: ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT
ANY WAY YOU SLICE
IT
AFTER Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles
2005
JP’s Blue Poles,
subjected to 3 modifications. First, it is sliced and
displaced in the
vertical direction over 16 steps, then 16 steps in the
horizontal
direction, then both. The image link shows the 3 processes
stacked one
on top of the other, along with the original Blue Poles at
the very
top.
http://www.kunst.no/bjornmag/mpphp2004/JPBP16Slx2005.jpg
mwp
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