This is a follow-up on the “Religion” sound-sculpture piece as described in the Dec 2, 2006 blog entry. This piece was submitted, and later accepted into the “Dada, Surrealism, Readymade & Found Object” show in Long Beach’s 2nd City Council Art Gallery. Above is a photo of the piece as it was situated in the Gallery. The juror for the show was Jon Meoli.
The Artist Statement, as submitted to the gallery, is as follows:
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"Mythological representations have been neither invented nor freely accepted. The products of a process independent of thought and will, they were, for the consciousness which underwent them, of an irrefutable and incontestable reality. Peoples and individuals are only the instruments of this process, which goes beyond their horizon and which they serve without understanding."
..... F.W.J. Schelling, “Introduction to Philosophy and Mythology”
Using Readymade and sound sculpture, “Religion” takes the familiar but subconscious mechanisms of consumer mythology/religion, tunes it, and reintroduces it to the audience in a more conscious mode of presentation. Sculpted into a new form, the audio clips of television commercials projected through shopping bags of red, white, and blue now invite conscious scrutiny: The stories that you believe in, the patterns in which you base your life, whose reality is it? And if it is yours, then who created it? Is it really real? And do you want any part of it?
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