SLIPPING GLIMPSERS
“During a slipping glimpse, I recall a distant memory, or a remnant of an ever-illusive impression. Art is often the process of letting go of the tangible world until it overlaps with that slipping world, the world of phenomenon.
This sculptural work captures a reoccurring dream that I had as a young child. While I haven’t had the dream in many years some residue of the dream remains viscerally within me. I recognize something of these two shaggy characters that lived behind our couch. Willem de Kooning said . . . I would be walking and then slip a little and then get a glimpse of something.
Similarly, Stephen Wolfram, the mathematician who wrote The New Science says we are lateral perceivers since we only perceive our world by looking sideways, on our same time plane. We don’t see into the future and we don’t remember evolving alongside other complex systems like the plants and animals. Wolfram describes life as becoming complex as it evolved out of a simple computer algorithm, repeating endlessly over a long time.
These creatures are the glimpse beyond the lateral perception into the past and future. They are familiar patterns appearing as anachronistic, radical outliers from behind the couch.”