Painting 2003 | UNSW
Research Proposal
The need to make sense of the world drives us to find a better abstraction. Abstractions of everyday culture are being played out all the time. As a community we are bombarded with abstracted reality in all forms of mediated imagery. We are feed it, we consume it, we create it, and we are created by it. It has become such a part of everyday culture that we have domesticated it by calling it ‘Wallpaper’. Abstractions being a representation of reality provide an opportunity to experience the fantastic to fantasise and imagine from a safe distance (an idea first introduced by Aristotle). Abstraction therefore provides something that life can not do, it can objectify and universalise experience and reconnect back with humanity. Abstraction then is a singular event when disparate objects and concepts come together to form a simplified complete whole. Abstraction then becomes central to cognition.
2002-2004
The need to make sense of the world drives us to find a better abstraction. Abstractions of everyday culture are being played out all the time. As a community we are bombarded with abstracted reality in all forms of mediated imagery. We are feed it, we consume it, we create it, and we are created by it. It has become such a part of everyday culture that we have domesticated it by calling it ‘Wallpaper’. Abstractions being a representation of reality provide an opportunity to experience the fantastic to fantasise and imagine from a safe distance (an idea first introduced by Aristotle). Abstraction therefore provides something that life can not do, it can objectify and universalise experience and reconnect back with humanity. Abstraction then is a singular event when disparate objects and concepts come together to form a simplified complete whole. Abstraction then becomes central to cognition.
2002-2004
