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Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2013 · Howto & Style

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson.  Music by James Lucchesi

Listening with Your Eyes

The severance of perception from emotion is a near impossible feat.
Color is emotion.

I hadn't seen my daughter in almost 3 weeks. As she approached a
strong sense of change took me by surprise. Had she grown? Had her
face matured? I squinted to try and get clarity on this metamorphosis
or the nostalgia that was tricking my powers of perception.

Art imitates life. Art subsumes life.

Transduction of light into neural signals is an effort in futility,
the eye an impotent device. Like staring at a solar eclipse, Peter
Alexander's plastic fields of translucent color burn the retina.
Poured, tinted resin is detonated by light, bringing to mind molten
pink lava, suddenly cooled and frozen in time.

Drops of pigment are measured precisely by the Alchemist. The curing
process, however, has a life of its own: a drop in temperature,
moisture in the Pacific air, a sense of post-coital elation are
powerful agents, subverting precision. Each work is as different from
the next as they are similar: identical twins' genetic material
spliced in two, duplicated as perfect imperfections.

Scale has changed. 40" of color, the edges of the field now in one's
peripheral vision, surround the viewer. The desire to compare works
is fractured to two walls at a time. Blurred? Vibrating? Rothko's
Chapel. Visual information obliterates sound. Spinning like a child,
dizzy and disorientated and blissfully happy.

Tim Nye 

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