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Quiet Moments
Artist Statement
Sitting in a coffeshop, drinking coffee and pretending to read a book, you’re actually watching the waitress talk to the strange, older customer. She seems weary but still patient, he seems a bit eager, a bit boisterous, a bit pathetic. Your imagination runs unchecked in filling in the blanks on who these people are, and what their relationship is like. Does he come in very often? Does she feel pity for him, or as he gained some sort of resigned affection from her? The couple in the next booth is young, you wonder if they have a relationship, and whether either or both of the two wishes that they did. Who is the worshipped and who is the worshipper? Or are they in that insanely unfair magical moment of discovery, in which they are basking in the joy of having found one another?...Curiosity
has always driven me to look, to strive to understand and gaze over the
immensurable distance that separates every human being. Relationships
become not between two people but from one person, the "viewer",
towards another, the "viewee", implicating that between two
people there are always two one-sided relationships. The degrees of separation
are present not just between strangers
but, more importantly, between the closest of people: friends, siblings,
etc. I find several layers or levels of masks, at play between the two
poles. The masks are a dynamic mesh of preconceptions projected by the
viewee (one level) and distorted by the viewer (another level), neither
controlled nor consciously understood (nor assumed) by either. It becomes
important to show the projection of each person’s filters on the
limited information they have of who they are interacting with. This limited
information actually encompasses almost everything they know, not just
every bit of knowledge possessed about this other person, but about human
behavior and interpretation thereof as they understand it.
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