IAN RUMMELL
Artist Statement
A haphazard mural depicting a handful of cash translates into plastic icons populating a cantilevered landscape. Little Debbie cupcakes replace apples in a still life. Compressed splinters in OSB emphasize locked potential and the fossils of chance. A spiritual lifestyle article published in the classifieds of a small town circular doubles as a CV. Corrupted flow from a pinched downspout degrades a wooden fence.
I make things to expose the dumb mechanics of my brain. These transmissions reckon with the spiraling listlessness of experience. I note fleeting connections to momentarily anchor myself in the concurrent panic and tedium of existence. By observing dissonant interactions between people, signage and sites, I record source material that is then transposed through antiquated and new technology. The dissonance seeps through the reiterations. New forms occasionally harmonize the initial defects. However unreliable, the provisional and incidental alignment of junk drives my practice.
Establishing connections between disparate objects and figures work to identify liminal spaces and offer a flickering legibility. Like a contact lense or a piece of sandpaper, adaptive, corrective and protective technologies clarify imagery. I am interested in mundane surfaces that unfasten themselves under oblique viewing. Anything that is easily deciphered is either a hoax or an inside joke with oneself.
PINK CURVE
