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Susan Eder / Craig Dennis - "Reflexions" November 6 - December 8, 2010 Reception for the artists: Saturday, November 13, 4-6 PM  "Reflexions are inkblots of oppositions. Each of us wrote one of two contrasting words, vertically using two different ink colors, on facing halves of a small piece of paper, then folded and pressed them together. Although those original blotted forms have been scanned, greatly enlarged and output as archival pigment prints on watercolor paper, they remain unaltered from their initial chance configurations. All imagery emerged serendipitously, beyond our control or intervention, purely a result of the random mingling of letterforms, fluid inks and viewer perceptions." For the past ten years, these two conceptual artists have teamed up, primarily using photography, to examine perceptual bias in the way commonplace things are viewed. Past series have examined clouds, Monarch butterflies, popcorn, etc. Any expressions or meaning attributed to these images were the viewer's own, though cleverly provoked by the artists' presentation. "Reflexions" explicitly refer to the classic, inherently meaningless, inkblots of the "Rorschach Test". However, unlike the one sided analysis of the psychological test, any meaning implied in these inkblots includes both the word and color choices of the creators as well as the perceptual tendencies of the viewer. |
