"The majority of the beautifully crafted sculptures have an easily legible pop aesthetic; but how they are linked to their immediate neighbours and the work as a whole is the result of the more subtle, and at times complex operations. The result is a portrait of something that appears to involve life, the universe and everything."- Mark Rappolt
50 miles west of Soccorro, Mexico on US Highway 60- there's something called the Very Large Array (VLA). The VLA consists of 27 satellite dishes each weighing 230 tons which are pointed towards the heavens. These huge satellites map out the universe which allows a bit of mysterious phenomenon to be explained. This very large array of satellites has become more of an attraction in this small town- they have even appeard in movies and novels. The concept of this is intriguing, how such a monstrous grouping of satellite dishes that merely observe space doesn't really mean much to the common person. It literally becomes a whole lot of nothing.. but really it is something- a mass of information too large to comprehend.
The VLA is merely described as "big", in comparison to Keith Tysons sculptures titled Large Field Array- which is described as being magic cubes. His sculptures are simple and graphic, with the pop like aesthetic that was mentioned above. They are representations of fragments of information that was collected by the VLA- in translation are completely basic in comparison to the actual details. In conclusion, the sculptures dont even reveal a fraction of the entire picture. Tyson's work "coheres through a fusion of more or less mysterious "science" and straightforward representational aesthetics." What I am drawn to about this regarding my own work is that his work forces the audience to realize that it should be taken at more than just face value- that it has something to do with the larger understanding of the involvement of life and just about anything that affects it.
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So confused....
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