BANG "AN ART CONCEPT THAT THINKS IT’S A GAME"
This is one of many art games I have produced over the last 30 years. The sculptures are hand silk screened, assembled, numbered and signed as pieces of art. This is where I have coined the phrase, “It’s an art concept that thinks it’s a game”. For it is a progressive, interactive work of art, that in holistic terms, models an evolving ecosystem in the ever changing context of nature. It not only emulates a form of evolution but illustrates how cultures form structures of belief systems and survival skills, that evolve and change as functioning societies. In the context of nature; it helps contemplate the value of the “Idea”, and how a conceptual space becomes real/3D, entering a contemporary state of time. In minimal terms, it applies three of the most important elements of life; Choice, Chance and the Aesthetic. While playing this art concept, a world out side of right or wrong is created within a perfect fractal. Here, even the perceived looser is a winner, completing the whole. This creates a type of history or precedence that develops a structural model with an Aesthetic at its core. Here the term Aesthetic is not only liken to that of an artist, deciding what color should be applied but how an engineer will step beyond what she or he knows to justify a complex structure, or how a judge will make a decision to create the perception of justice. As all of these individuals labor, in due diligence, a truth pro-vales, creating new precedents, adding to or producing new structures to live with, in and around. Of recent I have redesigned it and Produced BANG II which is a colorful reproduction of one of my chalk pastels. See BANG II
Below are images of the hand silk screened acrylic pieces progressively being played and assembled on the board or on clear wall mount.
THE MISSION OF BANG:
The mission of the Art Concept, Bang, is to expose and define the Aesthetic Core of our daily lives. Showing how the elements of Choice, Chance, and Aesthetics effect the structures, that are created in society, through the decisions we chose to make. Here,“Eco-Art” is a greater term of definition, “The Process of Eco-Art Intersecting with Community”. Where Dr. Benjamin Spock worked at quantifying love and Harry Harlow studied what happens in the absence of love, the art concept “Bang” models the importance of nurturing the “Aesthetic Judgement Process” within society as a whole. It is not about teaching one to paint the pretty picture, it is about building the “Aesthetic Core” of society as a whole.
INTERACTIVE:
I have designed this concept so that the sculpture will not evolve or become a sculpture without the interaction of the environment around it. Once the sculpture is created for the year, it will have a demanding presents that incites people to walk, sit, climb on and through it, creating a physical and visual relationship with it. Not only does this work of art nurture these types of relationships, it is my hope, it becomes like a well tended garden that annually produces fruit of opportunities for the community. In a contemporary sense, the city will be able to rely on it as a relationship that is financially beneficial. That as a fundraiser for the arts and sciences, it will give back, more to its tenders than is invested. Yes, ESPA (Economically Sustainable Public Art).
SCIENCE / NATURE:
This entire art concept revolves in an science to nature relationship. As science must create working models to prove its self, this too is a model of how many things in nature work and exist. One of the major parts of the sculpture/model is to show how there is an Aesthetic relationship to every thing we are and do and as the sculpture happens it mimics nature by creating a type of fractal structure.
SOMETHING UNIQUE:
This sculptural concept broadens the interpretation of science to nature using art to create a functioning model of an integrated ecosystem that includes art. Of recent, I have started working with a group of anthropology graduate students, from CU (Sarah Block,Drew Zackary and Ashley Story ANTH 4170, Culture and the Environment), that are studying this effect. I am also working with Tony Frank from CRES (Colorado Renewable Energy Society) and the DHA (Denver Housing Authority) on the involvement of art in a sustainable model park (Denver Sustainability Park) located in downtown Denver, Colorado.
COMMUNITY
This art concept is completely inclusive, for not only is it to be experienced by all but it is to raise funds for all. Even if a person or persons never see it, they may be benefiting from it.
EDUCATION AND INVOLVEMENT OF CHILDREN
Many people talk, preach and lobby for the value of art education but this is a model that physically illustrates the undeniable, inner value of the “Aesthetic Judgement Process”. This process keeps use from becoming the “machine”. By nurturing the creative “Aesthetic Core” of a healthy social ecosystem, a society of creative problem solving people evolve and flourish. On a park or playground scale, Children will not only enjoy seeing it in its different stages, (while it is being constructed, completed, being taken down or in its flat state) but will enjoy climbing on and around it. And as mentioned above, it will have a deep effect on children by raising money for educational purposes.
The mission of the Art Concept, Bang, is to expose and define the Aesthetic Core of our daily lives. Showing how the elements of Choice, Chance, and Aesthetics effect the structures, that are created in society, through the decisions we chose to make. Here,“Eco-Art” is a greater term of definition, “The Process of Eco-Art Intersecting with Community”. Where Dr. Benjamin Spock worked at quantifying love and Harry Harlow studied what happens in the absence of love, the art concept “Bang” models the importance of nurturing the “Aesthetic Judgement Process” within society as a whole. It is not about teaching one to paint the pretty picture, it is about building the “Aesthetic Core” of society as a whole.
INTERACTIVE:
I have designed this concept so that the sculpture will not evolve or become a sculpture without the interaction of the environment around it. Once the sculpture is created for the year, it will have a demanding presents that incites people to walk, sit, climb on and through it, creating a physical and visual relationship with it. Not only does this work of art nurture these types of relationships, it is my hope, it becomes like a well tended garden that annually produces fruit of opportunities for the community. In a contemporary sense, the city will be able to rely on it as a relationship that is financially beneficial. That as a fundraiser for the arts and sciences, it will give back, more to its tenders than is invested. Yes, ESPA (Economically Sustainable Public Art).
SCIENCE / NATURE:
This entire art concept revolves in an science to nature relationship. As science must create working models to prove its self, this too is a model of how many things in nature work and exist. One of the major parts of the sculpture/model is to show how there is an Aesthetic relationship to every thing we are and do and as the sculpture happens it mimics nature by creating a type of fractal structure.
SOMETHING UNIQUE:
This sculptural concept broadens the interpretation of science to nature using art to create a functioning model of an integrated ecosystem that includes art. Of recent, I have started working with a group of anthropology graduate students, from CU (Sarah Block,Drew Zackary and Ashley Story ANTH 4170, Culture and the Environment), that are studying this effect. I am also working with Tony Frank from CRES (Colorado Renewable Energy Society) and the DHA (Denver Housing Authority) on the involvement of art in a sustainable model park (Denver Sustainability Park) located in downtown Denver, Colorado.
COMMUNITY
This art concept is completely inclusive, for not only is it to be experienced by all but it is to raise funds for all. Even if a person or persons never see it, they may be benefiting from it.
EDUCATION AND INVOLVEMENT OF CHILDREN
Many people talk, preach and lobby for the value of art education but this is a model that physically illustrates the undeniable, inner value of the “Aesthetic Judgement Process”. This process keeps use from becoming the “machine”. By nurturing the creative “Aesthetic Core” of a healthy social ecosystem, a society of creative problem solving people evolve and flourish. On a park or playground scale, Children will not only enjoy seeing it in its different stages, (while it is being constructed, completed, being taken down or in its flat state) but will enjoy climbing on and around it. And as mentioned above, it will have a deep effect on children by raising money for educational purposes.