Celestial Subterrane at Rebekah Templeton 2012
“The Future is here, it is just not evenly distributed” quote attributed to William Gibson
So like everyone else, I’m thinking about the future more than I should, probably
because the last couple of years bear so much weight of the past, a gravity like an old
skin that we yearn release from. Admittedly, I’ve never been one to understand my time
very well, I always seem to be peering in corners and overturning rocks, the peripheral
and the margins are places I center myself; the construction of a machine run on
desperate optimism, art making the fuel providing hope and wonder like a lantern to
lead us out of now and into then.
I am skeptical of binary technology; yet, I am fascinated with it (like everyone
else). Technology is human nature, it is the way we build nests and spin webs, it’s our
instinct, it’s in our blood and it whispers form or bones. I’ve become obsessed with the
question of how would you build a computer with no keyboard or screen; how would you
interact with the world without a binary processor or internet connection? With tin cans,
aluminum foil and safety cones of course. The construction of a Tin-Can Folklore central
nervous System, growing out of an inkblot cartography, low tech methods and
materials, tin foil, safety cones, cut paper motion sensors and compact halogen lights.
Celestial Subterrane, a way of looking both deeply and personally inward,
a subjective journey toward the center of the self; yet, simultaneously expanding
outward, skyward, toward the collective and objective. I am fascinated with creating
hand built environments that absurdly attempt to replace the macrocosmic celestial
universe and its reflection of the microcosmic internal psyche. There will be three main
sculptural pieces, a totem, a light projected wall map, an analog computer made of
string and tin can-telephones, safety cones, wood and aluminum foil. The search for a
spiritual dimension to our increasingly mediated existence is the thread that connects
these disparate elements into a contextual framework.
Tyler Kline 2012