Artistic 'Techniques'
Art becomes reality. This is my desire, this is my purpose. So this is my creation, my child. The visions of primitive cave paintings dance in my vision as I put the last touches on the backdrop of this set. This abandoned Victorian house which is now home to leaves and spiders and forest creatures and my child, my masterpiece... we have carried generators and lights and cameras the many miles to this isolated place so that it can take form. Oral traditions of stories and mythologies have existed since before history was ever written, perhaps before man himself as the wolves and mystical creatures of the world before humans howled to each other the secrets of the universe. Simple pictographs and hieroglyphs illustrating the sacred and the profane and the good and the bad of existence emerged from the stories, and these pictures became written language....
Language advanced science, science evolved into new artistic techniques: animation, photography, film... The painted picture is an interpretation of reality using pigments and canvas; the photograph is an interpretation of light within the mechanical lens of a camera. The film within my camera will take thousands of photographs, one after another, quick like a supernatural pulsing back beat, and the movement of world shall be captured on the film. The history of art and science collide as I give birth to this. I have painted the tarps -- red, red, red, and black, the colors of his psyche. The Polaroid snapshots of his psychotic visions and nightmares and victories have been tacked and taped to the wall in a collage of madness. The boy -- his costume a simple one of jeans and combat boots -- has been prepared for his capture. Hair mussed, makeup slightly too dark to go…
