ENDS OF THE EARTH:
Larger Format Works Exploring
Horizon and
Meaning |
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To Go or Stay Longer
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| An outgrowth of the abstracted Melting Into Air series, these larger format studies further explore the interconnection of perception and world, aesthetics and physicality. |
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Edge of the World
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Went to the wall
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| Horizon playfully separates earth and sky, the present and the future, actual and possible. Horizon defines limit yet beckons us ever ahead. Constantly shifting, joining and weaving, horizon constructs space, time and identity, drawing us to the context behind all things. Horizon exists even in darkness and fog as it is as much inside us as out. |
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Waiting
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Clock of the Long
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| Is canvas—are artworks generally—sacred space? Something happens to us as we deeply—visually, conceptually, emotionally, physically—explore the levels of a painting. Works of art bracket part of the world, allowing reflection and response. While not all of us agree as to how sacred space becomes that way, most of us wish we could be there. |
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Séance
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It is Rumored
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| I am drawn - we are all drawn - toward meaning. Yet obvious meanings are not intriguing or interesting. This is probably because human experience is rarely simple or simplistic. Objects and events take place within overlaying contexts that shape and shade all meaning. |
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Context
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Ken Johnson. All rights reserved. Reproduction of artwork in any form is strictly prohibited. |
