I Merely Assemble And Transform Objects

I don’t compose: I assemble materials     I assemble material myth material math mockingbird assemblages

I assemble human heads repeated / overlapped     I assemble human heads overlapping circular lines shifts     Circular lines overlap portrait snow shifts / parallax polar coordinates

I don’t compose: I assemble materials     I assemble snow portraits polar bear silhouettes     I material slower snow appendages or assemblages

Douglas Huebler said:  “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting: I do not wish to add anymore.  I prefer simply, to state the existence of things, in terms of time and/or place.”  I like objects and the materiality of objects, both objects whole and in fragments.  I merely assemble and transform objects.  I rearrange and repeat objects interesting and uninteresting, and I like to think the object bricolage adds new or novelty to the world.  I hope to prophesy an anti-tradition, a sort of revolutionary and avant-garde spirit that nevertheless ruptures and sprouts out of tradition.  I reinvent and (mis)interpret traditions.  Anthony Braxton categorizes creative / mystical cycles as restructuralist, stylist, and traditionalist.  Restructuralism is analogous to Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shift perhaps – that creative breakthrough like Charlie Parker’s innovations that led to bebop or Albert Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity.  Stylists are creatives who build upon and expand the initial innovations: I believe Braxton gave Paul Desmond and Ahmad Jamal as examples (it should be noted that for Braxton, this is not a negative comparison to restructuralists but each part of the triadic cycle is necessary for healthy and full creative development, and Paul Desmond is a huge influence on Braxton).  Traditionalists are those who continue in older forms, such as performers of Dixieland Jazz or older forms of blues and gospel music.  I find Braxton’s creative cycles a useful model for my own creative processes and motivations.  I feel I work both simultaneously in a prophetic / mystical / visionary tradition as well as in the avant-garde and experimental lineage.  I attach myself to the cycle of traditional bodily other into a regenerative and experimental magma/miasma.  I assemble objects and my assemblages in themselves amplify novelty and new. 

I don’t compose: I assemble materials     I assemble slower soft processes / poem cardinals     I assemble facts     My face transforms faces: my face morphs faces face-to-face fire summer fog     My repetitive face manipulates face topologies (I assemble faces in night terror distortions)