Statement
Perhaps the most amazing sensation passed on to us by prehistoric man is that of presentiment. It will always continue. We might consider it as an eternal proof of the irrationality of the universe. Original man must have wandered through a world full of uncanny signs. He must have trembled at each step.
Giorgio de Chirico
My work addresses the mysterious and confusing parts of human life – wonder and ambiguity, connection and isolation, the slipperiness of time and space, light and dark. I look for moments that combine surprise and recognition in a flash of light, shadow, reflection, color, line, or shape within the overlooked, ephemeral and ordinary. In light of the tenuous and deeply unstable nature of our current existence, I am attempting to adopt a kind of profound openness to the present. I am seeking the charge of things, both hidden and revealed, and the value of transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning.
Sometimes even when we have words, they are inadequate, or seem inaccessible. Yet experiences that can’t be described can still have resonance, affect. They may touch, move, or infect; they may manifest a feeling, disposition or tendency. I make images to access that space where my knowledge and language fail.
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
Gilles Deleuze
Phenomenophilia is looking away at the colored shadow on the wall, or keeping the head turned to the angle at which the sunspot stays in view... We can't believe ourselves entitled to this feeling about a perceptual object so ephemeral that we can't even imagine that someone else would see it as we do, or even see it at all... something that could be coming to be and does not yet have the liabilities of anything that is.
Rei Terada
Statement
Perhaps the most amazing sensation passed on to us by prehistoric man is that of presentiment. It will always continue. We might consider it as an eternal proof of the irrationality of the universe. Original man must have wandered through a world full of uncanny signs. He must have trembled at each step.
Giorgio de Chirico
My work addresses the mysterious and confusing parts of human life – wonder and ambiguity, connection and isolation, the slipperiness of time and space, light and dark. I look for moments that combine surprise and recognition in a flash of light, shadow, reflection, color, line, or shape within the overlooked, ephemeral and ordinary. In light of the tenuous and deeply unstable nature of our current existence, I am attempting to adopt a kind of profound openness to the present. I am seeking the charge of things, both hidden and revealed, and the value of transient and ambiguous visual experiences that do not have fixed meaning.
Sometimes even when we have words, they are inadequate, or seem inaccessible. Yet experiences that can’t be described can still have resonance, affect. They may touch, move, or infect; they may manifest a feeling, disposition or tendency. I make images to access that space where my knowledge and language fail.
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
Gilles Deleuze
Phenomenophilia is looking away at the colored shadow on the wall, or keeping the head turned to the angle at which the sunspot stays in view... We can't believe ourselves entitled to this feeling about a perceptual object so ephemeral that we can't even imagine that someone else would see it as we do, or even see it at all... something that could be coming to be and does not yet have the liabilities of anything that is.
Rei Terada