The Process of Illumination

Part of "The View from Here"

2004

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Alison exhibited four pieces in this show, The Lessons, A Coffeetable is Work, Progressive Idea, and Hope.

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This selection is bound together by the process of illumination, in some cases literal, in some cases implied.

The radiance from The Lessons is literal, suggesting the possibilities inherent in the search for meaning and, at the same time, acknowledging that insights can be either frustrated or facilitated by external factors - the desktop opened up or shut tight and the cryptic blocks that have no apparent meaning.

The light of A Coffeetable is Work is implied in the folder of photographs boldly relieved from the surface, captive light from the past visible only as a ghostly alteration of light in the present moment.

The illumination of Progressive Idea is paradoxical, both present and potentially absent, both possibilities inherent in the rough drape which can be freely positioned to reveal or obscure the source.

Hope presents yet another alternative, lamps of contrasting size, big and little, displayed openly but disconnected from their trivial source of power.

But is power really derived from the electrical mains, or does it exist in the mind of the beholder?

© Alison Ulman 2004