Listening: Receive
intaglio prints, copper and binders thread
[variable, up to 9' h x 16' w]
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Abstract narrative
Mixit Print Studio
Not Participating in 2010 event
Web Site
www.randygarber.com
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"It is all too easy to take language, one's own language, for granted-one may need to encounter another language, or rather another mode of language, in order to be astonished, pushed into wonder, again." - Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf, 1989
“The visual persists until its disappearance; the sonorous appears and fades away into its permanence.” Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening, 2007
My work investigates perception and how meaning is deciphered. How we navigate our perceptual terrain is complicated by the fact that what we excavate, discover and describe is always over-determined by the tools we use: language, memory, science, line, shape, color, etc.: puzzling this out is the subject of my work.
I use elemental and pedestrian materials (copper plates, copper tubes, player piano scrolls, plastic tubing) and traditional processes (etching, drypoint, graphite and pencil drawing) and deploy the shadows cast from the works to suggest lingering traces and infinite regressions of language spoken, heard and visually encoded.
Throughout my explorations in varied media in two and three dimensional work, my images and marks evoke a sense of order as well as orderly growth gone awry. I believe that the aberrant, the rogue and the wayward signals are the ones that can guide us to expanded understanding of our worlds and ourselves.
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