Evan Washington Clarke Nabrit

"...Fresh perception now involves the capacity to continually unmask and to smash the stereotypes of vision and intellect with which modern communications [i.e. modern systems of representation] swamp us." C. Wright Mills: 1963Artist Statement: 2006/7 (re: 'the integrated' , 2005 project)Preparing this body of work was an exciting and strange inquest, full of discovery and failure and a very few successes. For me, success simply meant that an image might speak for itself; and not demand, at all times, in all places, the presence of the artist.The project began as an active interrogation of how to apprehend visually, the collapse of public/private spheres, conflated identities, difference, cultural stasis, shared perceptions of hegemonic devices (e.g. the picture plane, i.e. rectangle understood as both boundary and window). My base idea was integration. There were other broad themes that I was able to draw upon also, in order to produce the content of these images. Political identities, like the Innocent, the Perpetrator and the Benefactor. Arbitrariness, such as is represented in things like normative ethics and cultural relativism. Conceptually I wanted to reference rule - breaking, vandalism, territory, and negotiation; preceden...