EXHIBITED WORKS
Video Room, Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound
Scribble Stage
December 3 to 31, 2010
“Your work isn’t a high stakes, nail biting professional challenge. It’s a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.”
“ There’s a side of things where you can just make yourself crazy following some idea of what perfection is, but at a certain moment you remember play – that this is supposed to be fun. And I always have this phrase – “IF it ain’t fun, it’s not alive. To get a sense to draw back.”
-Richard Tuttle
Scribble Stage is one of a series of projects that I am in the process of doing that deals with play. It is a stone that kills several birds with one throw, the main one being how to spend more time with my son while still doing art. It is also a way of bridging and deepening my interests and experience with working with children and incorporating it into a contemporary art project. I am also interested in doing collaborative works. My earliest projects with Lena Cobangbang as Alice and Lucinda was very playful and I wanted to bring the same spirit to projects I am doing and will be doing with other people. It is always exciting to work with others and working with children, my child involves being open to the unexpected and unplanned. There is a big matter of letting go of expectations which are quite different from my solitary pursuit when painting.
The scribble stage is the starting point of drawing for a child. For me the works in Scribble Stage is at the beginning of something. My 50 small sculptures in “ Matter as Much as Metaphor” is also at the scribble stage. It is a logical consequence to my forays into collage. In this series I used common items as well as discarded toys to make miniature sculptures. Although the works hold a memory of the materials where they came from my main concern was to get back to the basics in terms of consideration for line and direction as well as shape and color. These works also pay tribute to painting and drawing from the deliberate use of lines with rubber, wire and tape to the drips and splotches of paint I used. This also holds true for the assemblages I made which are a mix of my previous collage series brought into a more 3 dimensional form.
Haraya’s contribution aside from a few of the small sculptures are the photographic works which is actually a collaboration by the two of us. My input was to provide some of the materials and to photograph the resulting environment. His job was to play with the pieces and create the environment.
The exhibition is very much inspired by Phylidda Barlow and Jessica Stockholder. I have always held wonder at their works and this exhibit strives to bring back that sense of wonder back into working, that sense of play.
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