Circadian Habits
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Authors
Busch, Leah
Issue Date
2005
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Thesis
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en_US
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The artist write, “The amount of light we are exposed to crucially affects our internal clocks. Our bodies respond to routine, forming habits and unconscious patterns. These life cycles construct the fractals of a modern human condition that I am trying to harness through paint. I explore a world of sub-texts, of in-between-time. A world of human gestures normally performed between actions, things we all do that no one thinks about. By painting in pairs (diptychs) I am able to force time into a piece that consequently demands comparisons from the audience. I want cinematic clipping, a second look, fractions of time, moments broken to pieces. An object as familiar as the bed transforms into the world of painting, where ideas rule. I am interested in the bed's possibilities: a metaphor for hunger, passion, dreams, safety and peace, while simultaneously representing fragility, vulnerability, and escape. As the setting for so many human emotions the bed crosses borders, sexes, and cultures, a rhythm present in each of our lives. Recurrent, unconscious patterns can also be self destructive, yet we find peace in them nonetheless. Life's cycles promise return, promise stability, promise eventual satisfaction even if sometimes through addictions. These paintings are about cycles, about looking, about surface quality and color. I am interested in time, in the momentary quality of human gestures, something so integrated into our muscles it goes without conscious thought.”
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30 p.
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