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Medi-a-tated Picasso Hall of Wandering 1.0 By Topher Maraffi (Displayed in DANM Porter Lounge, Spring '09) |
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In this work I combine ritualistic and theatrical elements to engage media as a meditative and mediated, or “medi-a-tated”, experience. I’m playing with the dimensional illusion of perpectival and kinematic techniques, as embodied in the Picasso Abstract Machine (1935), by fusing flat drawn and painted cutouts on cardboard with vanishing points in digitally manipulated photography. A “line of flight” is performed through natural and technological reflections to a doorway that reveals a singular movement in my personal history, a meditation walk through the New Mexico desert, captured in digital media memory on my video recorder. In addition, the final assemblage is literally tied to the exhibition space it inhabits, from the wall-map to the living tree, as the video and sound mechanically “reps & revs” the echoed perception of another sacred space and time. |
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| Detailed Description: Multi-media stage-alter construction containing digitally manipulated prints mounted on foamcore and cardboard, with hand-drawn acrylic and colored pencil enhancements, and cut hole revealing laser etched plexiglass hanging from wood dowel rods with monitor and projector playing digital video and sound on a Mac computer. Assemblage displayed in Porter lounge space also contained a proscenium style frame created from black velvet cloth and mini spot lights, burning incense and holder, and found items: desk, tree, leaves, map, lamp, trashcan, and yellow string. Video:
Additional Photographs:
Pre-Pro sketches and designs:
Source photography of Art Dept doorway with reflections:
Images laser etched and cut on plexiglass:
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