“Conceptual Future Confrontations with Tangible Manifestations”

“Conceptual Future Confrontations with Tangible Manifestations”

Originally uploaded by The ART of Ryan Seslow Retrospective.

Funny, but true, and maybe we should not even say that, its just fact. The world is moving fast, no matter how far behind you are with technology. Im re-posting this image for a second time, it has a different context for this post. I made this piece about a year ago. Its an old fashioned ethc a sketch toy, it was being thrown away by an artist’s wife whom had just passed away. At the time I was a part of the helping squad to clean out the old artist’s wares. This was a long time ago as I was still in my MFA program. I cant even remember how we had been selected to help out. Anyway, I did not feel impulsed to do anything with this object at the time. It sat in my studio for about 6 years before I even thought about. Hell, I didn’t even try to use it as what it had been created for! I did not want to “etch a sketch” on it. I just wanted to look at it, and befriend it as a physical metaphor of change. Technologies and faculties change, we must participate in the upgrade itself. When was the last time you revamped your skills? Or questioned the way you were creating your works? ” We do what can at the time that our technology allows ” , hmmm, that used to hold up in the 1960s perhaps, perhaps? I follow a meta lifestyle, meaning as I live here in the now, I also have created a part of me who is always thinking and imagining how and what new technologies will continue to transcend. Especially themselves, into my life and into my art. Right now, ask your self, what role does technology play in your work/ art? What skills are lacking, and why haven’t you updated them? What part of yourself do you see in the new developing technologies of today’s world? You do realize that everyone and everything is a part of you? All but a fragmented series of reflections.