2022

Existence Is Paused is an external expression and embodiment of the internal and subconscious experience with the natural qualities of light. The mind of the beholder allows the subliminal characteristics of light emission and treatment among our surroundings to slip into nothing but a momentary note. To translate the forgotten presence in its nature by means of creating impossibilities that cannot be fathomed nor replicated in our reality. Existence Is Paused follows the tropes and foundations of conceptual art devices. The incorporation of the CRT TV and the plinth becomes reenvisioned through its physical essence and presence. Two autonomous objects become a single entity, becoming a monolithic structure in itself. With the perfect dimensions of the plinth to the CRT TV, it turns the two objects into something synonymous with a monolith. This echoes on through to the video aspect.

A rotating obelisk, reflecting light from a voided space. Rhythmically smooth, it subconsciously fills the absence of silence. This echoing relationship between the literal physicality of the work and the animated aspect validates the plinth’s existence. Its presence is acknowledged and its absence would be missed. The plinth would become no more than an ability of presentation, and the CRT TV would unwillingly be placed upon a metaphorical pedestal, under a spotlight. There is an impossibility of the plinth being neutral. It is never just a plinth. Recognizing the natural abilities of light creates room for the manipulation of impossibilities to become possibilities. It is tempting to the unfeasibility of our understood reality. Allowing objects present within the void to be lit into our existence. These impossibilities are what intrigue the conscious. The absence of light in space creates a void. A void is rendered by the material quality of the CRT TV and the eerie illumination and reflective surface upon the monolithic shapes present. The relationship among a variety of forms creates a stable tension. The grounded and immovable physicality reflected within the void and that of our reality, paired with the rhythmic rotation of the static nature of the obelisk. The movement compliments the immovability and permanence of both the plinth and obelisk. While it simultaneously acts as a vessel for the impossibility of the anti-matter characteristics of light to reflect and distort within the void. Existence Is Paused explores the ability to translate a complicated take on light as a material through subtle, minimal and simplistic conventions. Calling on what falls behind the walls of our eyes, this work calls for not only a moment of gazing and pondering upon its hypnotic nature but furthermore digestion of how light interacts within our reality. A reality that wouldn’t “exist” to us without such anti-materiality.