CONVINCE ME (that you are mine)

My current body work arrives at it’s center from two opposite vantage points, whose title is taken from a scene in my film After Louie between the director and the actor.

Scene 145. At the moment the DIRECTOR walks into the scene and brushes a sweaty lock of blond hair from his eyes, and asks, “ Are you sure?”

He has a second thought about the hair and brushes it back into his face. “Convince me.”

1.

Drive out nature and it returns at a gallop — to which we can give any meaning we like—

André Gide

Section One, xxxxxxxxxtitlesxxxxx, can be categorized by a formal organization of the organization of space and the use of modern industrial material such as plexi, rubber, nuts, bolts, and photographs. I am interested in linking the qualities of these elements and how they converge on a flat plane to my imagination and experience, without the middle man of a “subject.” The organization of color, materials and form uncovers a pure expression of the mind, not obscured by nature, literal references and specific subjects. It is the picking and choosing and grouping of these elements, so that the result may be beautiful.

2.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.—

JeanLuc Godard

Opposite of Section One, here, the subject is evident. It is the predatory eye of the artist, and heart response, that determines the crop, the slice, the up-closeness, the smashing together of the subjects blond hair, the downward gaze, an eyelash, the red lips, a gesture.

The commonality between both sections is they are both an organization of color, form and materials. Both share the process of picking and choosing and the grouping of elements.