Saturday, March 1, 2008

Scott Grieger

Why have only Camo cloths in your piece?
Why have the wall in red with world map?
Why have a digital clock/timer?

The artist doesn't use wild creative imagination or dwell into dark sorrowful thoughts for his work
- resides in commonplace experiments and normal models of perception
Likes images that are ignored
- logos and illustration
Takes them, manipulates them, then sends them back into the world
-to unbrainwash people
- change their view of thinking when they see the logos in a new defined way

Why choose logos and illustrations?
*interesting how people become drawn to one meaning behind something. Yet, as soon as you display that object in a different form, the meaning immediately changes.

"I believe change actually comes from the thoughts of many individuals."

He enlarged a large map of the earht on a large cloth that was all casted in red
- red means "warning"
+ "emergency hot"
- true state of the world: threatened with inferno, eruption
+ unless we head the artist warning
*Clock or timer on the cloth could mean that we are loosing track of time or that time itself is running out until the fate of the world falls
* that is...unless we do something about it first

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