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"So Close - So Far" - A Masking Tape Art Installation - Old Jerome High School 2010
This Conceptual Masking Tape Art Installation was executed in 2010 at the Old Jerome High School using hand-painted painter's tape as a "drawing tool" - applied to freshly painted concrete walls in the corridors of a 1920's era School House. Several individual installation "pieces" were created to fill the top floor of Building A in the Artist's Studio & Gallery Facility.
The conceptual title of the installation as a whole was termed "So Close...So Far" - cohesively focused on the concept of tracking eternity through conceptual understanding of juxtaposed dichotomies and archetypal images outlining the processes of life & death, permanence vs temporal, Dark and light etc. During the making of this installation, the artist was focused on expressing the Five Stages of Grief as proposed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her 1969 book entitled "On Death And Dying".
Although each individual large scale installation piece had a merit of its own and could be interpreted as separate...the environment was intended to be experienced and viewed as a whole. The hope of the artist was to express the somber passageway and almost 2 dimensional numbness of loss and death - with the finality commencing in hope of renewal or pushing forth anew . The individual pieces were a mental journey "an open Sketchbook" in a conceptual interior landscape filled with tape constructed line drawings as hieroglyphs of the psyche...defining the mental and emotional process of passing through the grieving process in decipherable stages. Overall, this exhibit attempted cohesion in technique and scale, however the artist was first and foremost led by intuition and experimentation in bringing forth a new type of drawing method in grand scale, an ephemeral and emerging artform - birthed in an historic learning environment, on a high desert mountain ghost town. Catharsis was the achieved outcome.
"You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one, you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross-
The conceptual title of the installation as a whole was termed "So Close...So Far" - cohesively focused on the concept of tracking eternity through conceptual understanding of juxtaposed dichotomies and archetypal images outlining the processes of life & death, permanence vs temporal, Dark and light etc. During the making of this installation, the artist was focused on expressing the Five Stages of Grief as proposed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her 1969 book entitled "On Death And Dying".
Although each individual large scale installation piece had a merit of its own and could be interpreted as separate...the environment was intended to be experienced and viewed as a whole. The hope of the artist was to express the somber passageway and almost 2 dimensional numbness of loss and death - with the finality commencing in hope of renewal or pushing forth anew . The individual pieces were a mental journey "an open Sketchbook" in a conceptual interior landscape filled with tape constructed line drawings as hieroglyphs of the psyche...defining the mental and emotional process of passing through the grieving process in decipherable stages. Overall, this exhibit attempted cohesion in technique and scale, however the artist was first and foremost led by intuition and experimentation in bringing forth a new type of drawing method in grand scale, an ephemeral and emerging artform - birthed in an historic learning environment, on a high desert mountain ghost town. Catharsis was the achieved outcome.
"You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one, you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross-