Context/Content: A Conjecture of Being and Becoming
Seeking/choosing content out of context is the processing of a lifetime; a working structure for being and becoming.
We are transformational beings, creatures of nature/ nurture, on a timeline escalator in an exercise of survival. Wonder, curiosity, and inquiry are driving forces. We have to solve problems, make choices, and confront the unknowns.
This Seeking/choosing content out of context is what we do to negotiate/engage all sorts of environments and circumstances to access, select, and satisfy need/meaning forward movement: food, shelter, survival, work, control, understanding, adaptation, conditions of being and becoming.
My creative process echos these same terms: the context regards aesthetics, art materials and practices: an application of context/content matrix flex with resultant content feedback.
(aesthetics, evocative metaphor suggestion, metacognition and art criticism/evaluation= content)
My creative process with found materials is a manifestation and metaphor of this context/content examination processing: being and becoming. I want my creative headspace to be about a free and open exploration, aesthetic and intellectual, that explores the intuitive impulse of my collected consciousness, self-understanding of acculturation, which aids the subconscious into consciousness, towards self awareness and self-actualization.
These are the broad undercurrents of my artistic conjecture and modus oporundi.
More specifically, my creative activity is about the process of a creative exploration/engagement of materials, creative impulse and intuition that moves to an acceptable resolution of aesthetic composition.; there is no preconception, expectation of “outcome”, narrative, concept or vision.
I begin, move about the picture plane, see what comes, check for relationships, mind composition and find some resolution.
I use Found Materials for Collage, Wood Assemblage, Mixed Media creative exploration.
Nonspecific exploration engagement and subconscious exploration field process focus.
Drawing explores materials/ picture plane as Impulse intuition mark making matrix for content/composition.
Hand movement touch, tempo, direction, composition
Art default modus operandi pattern: initiate, negotiate, resolve composition then evaluate composition and content for meaning.
My process is about the organization of art elements: (shape, line, texture, value, color, space, direction) that are inherent in the found materials. In the midst of this creative exploration, movement, speculation, meditation, working trance, time evaporates and peace unfolds. During this creative exploration context, thoughts and feelings that are evoked from the interaction of diverse materials arise and coalesce into consciousness, an opportunity for metacognitive understanding.
In the progress of this physical moment of activity, I monitor the feelings, thoughts, memories that float into a current of consciousness; this is transitional content distilled out of context: this stream of consciousness is then filtered metacognition for self understanding of acculturation, expectation, self direction, ad nauseam self reflection of coming and going, being and becoming.
Basically just “do it”, absorb the results, read the suggestions and keep moving to finding new content from changing contexts. If I keep busy and focused I believe I will access a satisfaction reward. The real reward is just the actual having the on going creative moment of activity.
Alan Azhderian
Robert F. Agrella Gallery - Doyle Library