1-Found-ation
Mixed media assemblage
2008
This piece was finished on the rush to get in a show (MasterPeace, at the MFA gallery, Concordia University) and I am quite happy with it. It sums up a lot of my personal philosophies. That is why it is called Found-ation. Discussions with my friend and colleague Patrick Bureau have led me to undergo further exploration into the idea that the shapes of the boxes that I have been producing over the years reference different types of technology.
Found-ation is like a laptop, with the upper part being the screen and the lower part being the inside of the computer, in many regards. In reference to technology, it becomes a train of thought, where what is inside is the information and hardware which allows the screen to display a representation of what is inside the computer, by means of having read all the information and produced a two-dimensional reading based on the three-dimensional information trapped inside the box. Through a metaphorical perspective (one which stretches out to become a telos of sorts), we have a foundation which hides underneath it the tools to build what emerges out of it. A scary-looking little man, a key on a key-chain wrapped in an old bra-strap, little pieces of garbage and wood, all contained as the entities which brought about the building of a foundation that never was continued but echoes the ghosts of the decisions (the doors) that were made to get to where it managed to get. It is a layering of visual puns to create a philosophy.
