Judy Varga
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada
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by Judy Varga
GEOMETRY
OF ECHOES CONVERGE
Through hallucination and imagination, one can create a realism that pierces
right to the core of the sensual, the this—worldly. Rupturing the
surface of things, the habitual perception, and filtering through layers
of meaning and form, one can create a realism that defies complacent realism.
My work seems to depend on a sense of dislocation vis a vis the comfortable,
habitual. way of perceiving. In order to pursue this sense, it is necessary
to descend into the chaos of unmitigated experience with all its crosscurrents,
illusions, expanding and contracting boundaries, and raw terror, power,
and beauty. The element of material tension in transmuted matter (a solid
split open to reveal a liquid core mound as body, body as vessel) suggests
the dislocation and dissolution of the boundaries between artifact and
nature, between object and place.
The
mounds, in their apparent orbit on a vertical/horizontal axis, are intimately
bound with the generating forces of nature. They are the loci around which
the elements dance, spin, overlap, overturn, link and scatter. The water
and the wind are at once form and content, the container and the contained.
As motive powers, the bodies of water and wind wrap themselves around
the mounds and the mounds spin the water/wind around their axes. The nexus,
which binds the three mounds with the water and is primarily connected
with the actions of the wind on the water exists at the equator
of each mound the edge of reflection, of echo.
earthwork, permanent (temporal)
recharge
basin (managed by the Dept. of Transportation, NY) Old Westbury, NY.
dimensions:basin
— 200'
x 400' x 35'deep mounds — 38' diameter x 12' high at center
(size and shape of
mounds and water level vary according to.climatic and seasonal changes)
materials: ochre colored
coarse gravel, medium grained sand, fine sand. (heaviest/largest grained
material is at the base of the mounds, lightest/smallest grained material
is on top.)
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