I make sculptures and paintings about my anticipatory nostalgia for obsolescing paper media objects. The softness of a read newspaper page and the glossy slickness of a fresh magazine page are sensations embedded in our physical memory — the familiarity of touching these objects allows a relationship to form in the process of consuming the information they provide. When these objects disappear from our culture and assume the homogeneous texture of a back-lit screen, I fear that some of our intimacy with the process of reading will fade.
My oh my, the things that people do. The mental acrobatics involved and the servitude that the hand must render would bore me to the ends of the earth. Nevertheless, the conceptual impetus contains some reluctant credence and I did, after all, stop to look and listen.
I do have a mental picture of the artists Lauren DiCioccio and Jaq Chartier hugging.
I suppose that there would be a mathematical formulation of perfection that attaches itself to the circle and this artist(DiCioccio) would not be the first to find solace in and succumb to the allure of the lowly dot.
Ooooh, she’s got systems. Really good systems. Thanks for the feature – she wasn’t on my radar of string-and-obsession-based artists!
The body of Lauren DiCioccio’s work reminds one of the emotional importance of ephemera. Her novel view and interpretation belies a person with a wonderful sense of humor.