Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Carl Klimt


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Carl Klimt is an artist living and working in Portland, OR


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            Being trapped between one’s desire for certain moments to remain unchanged and the impossibility of permanence creates unease. The actions and reactions I’m specifically interested in originate from somewhere deep within my subconscious. In Gestalt theory “the operational principle of the brain is parallel, and analog with self organizing tendencies”. As I understand it, we begin to know our deepest selves by observing our wordless decisions.
            The work with sawdust is in part about creating a physical unease by building tenuous structures. They were compressed with my weight and remain held together with nothing but gravity and the integrity of the interlocking fibers. Despite these sculptures being fragile enough to fall apart with a gentle nudge, they remain stable if untouched. They are a temporary record of a gesture, which use the language of architecture in the form of corners, walls, and pillars, to speak to internal psychological spaces.
            My process is based in gleaning from everyday observations. To a carpenter sawdust is trash but to me it is conceptually rich artistic material. A table saw produces a small gap between the two sides of the wood it cuts. What remains is the sawdust. It is a byproduct of the physical creation of negative space. Commonplace actions and materials become starting points for abstraction to ultimately begin describing my sense of place.

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