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Binary Fission / Binary Opposition / Blurry Vision In Bride of Frankenstein,
the female lead has one line, delivered at the very end of the film:
an angry and terrified hiss. Her incoherent utterance expresses the
anxiety of being trapped between worlds, in a state of becoming.
My work is developed in my
studio as in a laboratory. I search out visual material that is visceral
and palpable, then I transfer it into digital information, manipulate
it, and then send it back into physical reality, manipulate again, and
the process repeated until a kind of sine wave of process is established.
As material is transferred and re-interpreted between the physical and
digital worlds, information is lost and added, both by the process itself
and by choices, intuitive and rational, to subject the imagery to further
distortion and mediation.
By propelling away from a
literal "illustrative" meaning, I try to get the work to hover in a
state of perpetual acute ambivalence, where definitions are mutable
and boundless. Dichotomies are rampant: opticality/physicality, entropy/stasis
(order), logic/intuition, mind/body, information/substance. The play
of these elements in opposition or in concert with each other is what
fuels the work. By functioning in the gap between states, these works
are intended to evoke a perpetually deferred position of longing, of
becoming.
Andrea Champlin, 1999
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