Day 1 Journal Entry

After working as an artist in the area of experimental film and conceptual photography, I am beginning to review notions of conventional language and it’s relationship to images, in other words the construction of language and it’s influence on pereception. I began work as an artist in the area of film/experimental or art film. Ok, I”m actually a poet at heart and my earlier filmworks involve poetic text on films.

I became interested in working with the actual material of the film itself, altering the surface after a filmart class with M. Rudnick (computer editor:Flowers & Leaves). My travels to Paris, France in 2001 also gave me an opportunity to view many other artists working in this medium.

In a series of photographs I completed, I took a photographic image of the wall and hung it on the wall itself: Hence the title: ” A Photograph Of the Wall You’re Looking At”.

I was interested in how the photographic and filmic image stands to record a historic moment in time. After presenting at the World Phenomenology Conference, Harvard, 2004… I was inspired to continue to look at the discussion of time in relation to the photographic and filmic image.

According to Alon Segev, “Phenomenological Return To Religion- Heidegger and Benjamin”- “Hence it follows also that we can no longer avail ourselves of the concept of time as an endless “now-chain”….the fact that the phenomenon shows itself, that it occurs implies a peculiarly temporal event. …not the specific past of this or that object, but rather as a means to sever the now-chain so that the phenomenon can show itself. “- Phenomenological Inquiry, Volume 29, Oct. 2005.

I plan to continue to exhibit following this path of conceptual language.

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