These images represent a larger photographic archive. The archive consists of images documenting fake rock electrical boxes. The environments, textures, installation and overall design are all of concern in the photographic exercise. The example images were collected Fall 2019. To add to the archive please reach out to me directly via any of the provided contact information.
“A Klee painting named 'Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”
- Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History, 1942
The spiral came to me through specific embodiment related to video and performance. I had been working with VR video and solo video recording with the 360 camera for a few years before this symbol showed up in my work. For me, is was the running and panting I had done around my 360 camera that first brought me to draw and form the spiral. It came from a dizziness. This disorientation proved to be an important context for examining ideas of measurement and precision which entirely eludes me outside of fantasy.
A forked nature
One third of one part of the naming
33.33333
Or, habits of quitting before the conclusion
You built a tool to make the pixels send
A fantasy of exposure
Maybe the head dips
Two thumbs and two pointers frame the waterfalls edge
Head dip, dipped too
Color popped, an affront to the reference
2,700 sq feet does no good
110 dBA, like
A siren at 10 meters and/or frequently, the sound level
In dance clubs
Release date pending, Kitty-Catty, Ty Opelia-Young & Schanen Ryan, 2020
Kitty-Catty is a book of image / text developed in collaboration, by Schanen Ryan and Ty Opelia-Young released late 2020. The work developed over many months, guided by discourse surrounding Gilbert Simondon's text, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects.