K. Scot Sparks: The Wooing and the Warning
On view September 7-30, 2007. Opening Reception September 7, 7-11PM with a free concert by Vandaveer, The Scourge of the Sea, and Adventure beginning at 8PM. Artist talk at 7:30.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“…As if love unreflected, it reaches for him;
somewhere between the flashing tube and the daily
noise of the paper, a departing glow lingers…�?
“…She saw these things and treasured them in her
depths…�?
Image qualities join referent qualities here to
nudge empathetic sight toward insight. These twilight
horizons are sifted through atmospheric, illusional,
calligraphic and manual lenses. As if extending this
cascade of foils, the sky’s distant fires beckon from
behind variously opaque clouds. Sight (and, perhaps,
the soul) is both wooed and warned.
As if groping through the dark, featured smears
and scrapes - and/or spraypainted “atmospheres” -
would here glimpse provisional openings, spaces
through which meaning’s light “seeks the seeker.�?
Among other things, the twilight vision seems to check
hubris. Absolute relativism seems no less vulnerable
to its light than does “absolute�? absolutism.
Where turned outward, constructive reflection
recovers a reality teaming with the intrinsically
valuable -substantive things and relations silently
demanding sustained, deeply human attention. For the
most part, these are a few souvenirs of my fledgling
attempts to be attentive.
