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Ryan LewisEverted Sanctuaries I2013
2013
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dual or single channel digital video, 2 min 27 sec, edition 1 of 5
The artist says of his work...
I seek to surprise and delight viewers and challenge their preconceptions through stop-motion animated videos. My work traverses the boundaries of digital and tactile materials and processes. My process and craft are heavily informed by my experience as a graphic designer and type designer, sometimes incorporating letterforms or font technologies, printed materials, and digital tools. Visual spectacle serves as an entry point to provoke thought and reflection—to move towards and embrace complexity and uncertainty.
Everted Sanctuaries is a series of stop-motion animated video works exploring the topic of introversion. Found objects are transformed to reveal complexities that often go unnoticed below the surface. The strains and stresses of transformation form a methodical performance where brokenness and adaptation are indistinguishable. The transformed objects become metaphors for the often uncomfortable process of becoming temporarily extroverted. Ubiquitous exteriors part to reveal intricate interiors—beautiful, but unintended consequences of the contortions necessary to fit in. Everted Sanctuaries demonstrate the remarkable flexibility of introverts and ask viewers to consider the depth and vulnerability concealed beneath silent surfaces.
They the People invites reconsideration of a familiar national symbol. Symbols come with intended messages, but their most enduring associations accumulate over time. Symbols are not content, but are instead vessels in which content is stored. As designer Paul Rand said: “It is only by association…that a logo [symbol] takes on any real meaning. It derives its meaning and usefulness from the quality of that which it symbolizes.” Meanings come and go. They amass in rich, messy, complicated, diverse, beautiful layers. Symbols inevitably represent lived realities rather than lofty ideals. Stop-motion animated fibers form a fragile, loosely-connected fabric that precariously hovers between order and chaos. This delicate vision is obscured and disrupted by fields of texture formed with repurposed digital symbols. We are reminded that symbols are what we make them—they can represent our ideals and successes, but also our collective failures, insensitivities, overconfidence, and divisions.
- Creator:Ryan Lewis (American)
- Creation Year:2013
- Dimensions:Height: 2 in (5.08 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New Orleans, LA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU105213044082
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