TERRENCE CAMPAGNA
One hears about people being born with the ability to speak or even understand foreign tongues they have never been taught. I don't know if this is possible, but it relates to my own way of creating. There are certain things that happen in life, the way a deer moves it's body thru the woods say, or certain things that exist, like snow piling up on a power cable in Michigan in mid January, and on and on, which somehow speak with resonance and clarity. I've always tried to utilize these kinds of languages in my artwork.
Terrence is an alumni of the University of Michigan School of Art and currently lives and works in Ann Arbor.
NICOLE
MACDONALD
alberto giacometti said that every time he picks up a pencil to draw, he approaches the paper as if it is his first time. as if he had never drawen anything before in his life. what is drawing, what is it i trying to do? how is this bloody thing going to happen? this approach kept him from tedious repetition, placing him in a ongoing struggle. constantly questioning and keeping oneself's underfire helps create/ mantain the life in one's work.
anyways, pinning alberto's philosophy to my own forehead... i'd like to think i continually strive to attain the state of knowing nothing.
Latent Light encompasses interests in photography, social and interactive sculpture. In our search to realize Latent Light we sought out and interviewed people who are part of our daily existence--the stranger that we see frequently but hadn't ever talked to, customers we interact with at the jobs we work, the acquaintence we bump into now and again, friends, family members, and so forth. We started with the hypothesis that it is all the people connected to our lives--some intimately others less so--that serve as and become different kinds of light to us. We recorded and photographed these subjects discussing the role of light in their life and used these medias as part of our "Latent Light Probing Unit".
