The Disconnected Dislocation Dilemma:::::::Kenneth Jones::::::The Print Center::::::Philadelphia, PA




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An Accumulated Story

It may be that the distance between lived experience and our recollection of it is the measure of wisdom in memory. There is at once both a fascination and fear of this distance and its suspicious accumulation. As I grow older, I am finding space between idea and action most precious–for it is that space which tests our creative self.

The problem with art is gathering that elusive wisdom into a form and re-defining it so it suspends into an idea–the form becomes a concept of memory, of hope, of despair. Untangling the accumulated story is a common challenge for all of us.

These days, my experience is surrounded by the mania of pictures currently attached (yet detachable) in navigable screens of mediated information–hurried images stored anonymously and transparently in the electronic impulse of tiny machinery. The transient graphic–a sophisticated but immature mark of mathematics and my obsessive collections of parts of things undone, messages unhinged from the messenger tell this accumulated story of resizing windows, some opened, some closed, some still hidden.

The work in the "Disconnected, Dislocation Dilemma", is a collision of such images, information and markings–fraught with the anxiety of the unresolved. These images are left open and determinately incomplete. It is what these images collect rather than direct or distill that's significant–they are snapshot inventories of the moving landscape of the screen. These noisy desktop captures map the terrain surrounding the usually hidden episodes of editing the fine art image. The images are left within the interface and are in the process of departure, arrival, or possibly even estranged by their inevitable obsolescence.





Kenneth Jones
November 2004

Posted: Mon - December 6, 2004 at 01:03 AM        

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