INTERESTING QUESTIONS RE: 'REAL' VS. 'DIGITAL' SPECTATORS... THE PROJECTS ARE CONCEIVED AS AN INTERRUPTION OF 'REAL SPACE' FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE EXISTING IN A 'DIGITAL' ONE...
many things are crafted cryptically, they are only comprehensible to one with time attention and background. these are seemingly made for a few people, will be only mildly pleasing to the rest
what is it about non-performance, non-contribution to a social existence, that unnerves us so? Is it because they're just one step removed from ourselves? Q would suggest some of us have plainly already crossed said Rubicon.
"Here is a film that I made out of a deep grief. The grief is my business in a way, but the grief was helpful in squeezing the little film out of me, that I said “these crazy moths are flying into the candelight, and burning themselves to death, and that’s what’s happening to me. I don’t have enough money to make these films, and ... I’m not feeding my children properly, because of these damn films, you know. And I’m burning up here... What can I do?” I’m feeling the full horror of some kind of immolation, in a…
"Here is a film that I made out of a deep grief. The grief is my business in a way, but the grief was helpful in squeezing the little film out of me, that I said “these crazy moths are flying into the candelight, and burning themselves to death, and that’s what’s happening to me. I don’t have enough money to make these films, and ... I’m not feeding my children properly, because of these damn films, you know. And I’m burning up here... What can I do?” I’m feeling the full horror of some kind of immolation, in a way."