five thousand paratemporal feet

46" x 30" x 5000' -K.I.A. 2012
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Past Lives, Recombinant Personalities & Divination Inclinations

Added a narrative bio for K.I.A. re: past-lives,  R.E.M. paintings, remixable sculptures, and one's brain as the receiver of a uniquely broadcast personality.

Keith Haring, George Michaels and Sheryl Crow make cameo appearances, as does Janet Cardiff and some Japanese guy. Read the bio here: http://www.nu4ya.com/bio.html

EXCERPT: 

“I hated landscapes. So I started doing them.” Sort of. A sampling: a birch forest, made of a morse-coded poem, along with secretarial shorthand; a pastoral scene slyly acknowledging four Canadian art-giants, organic shapes undercut with minimalism; a glorious greeting-card landscape of a rainbow over a farm, translated into thousands of scintillating squares via 18th century Jacquard-cards (the precursor to computer programming). “I’d had some interesting experiences where it became clear that the brain or body was not the seat of the soul but was more like a receiver, or translator, of something bigger. Reality was something we each decoded. I wanted to express that.” 

He’d received an energy-healing at a meditation class that completely fixed an old eye injury from  karate. He also had a profound psychic reading. “I was told of this woman living this muddy, mundane pioneer life on the prairies, sod home and all. Her big creative outlet was was to hang the laundry, woo-hoo, and read the one book the family owned, over and over.” There was a fire, they lost the book. The woman was so despondent that her kids gave her blank pages to rewrite it from memory, which ultimately led to writing her own original stories, which were eventually widely-read. “That pioneer woman was me. This stranger had zeroed-in on my appreciation for writing, abhorrence for housework, and avoidance of anything cowboy.” 

But what really resonated was the description of the laundry: the woman expressing herself by creatively hanging the piles of washed clothes in colorful and interesting patterns on the line. “Months later, I was describing the reading to a curator who’d come over to see my work, and it hit me -- we were, at that moment, looking at colorful and interesting patterns of panels, hung in long lines.”  Embedded in the past-life story was a description of his recombinant painting-installations, which were very, very specific to him. The idea that the soul was an infinite thing, and that each lifetime was just a part of the whole -- like pieces of a collage, like panels in a painting, like paintings in a giant ‘super-work’ -- echoed his art...

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