David Jung
One Rabbit Impasse
The work created for One Rabbit Impasse relies heavily on concepts of ‘beginnings’ and ‘ends’, more specifically how things are realized to finality through either deterministic or randomly structured pathways . Apeiron and Teleology, for example, are concepts that inform my art making process for its purpose, and/or its goal to exist as art. It is the belief that all things have a purpose, and that all things have an end goal whether it is predetermined or random.
The process begins with trying (and failing) to control random gestures. The initial ground of the work is created by transfer printing ink to paper with a technique called Suminagashi; a meditative, cerebral action of floating rings of Sumi ink on the surface of water. By design, it becomes about the process of working through a piece and I’ve realized that sometimes it is good to be a tourist in that process, allowing the work to become a guide in how to proceed toward that end.
I incorporate images into my work that refer to consolations of consciousness. Religion, science, art canon, and consumer culture, for example, provide visual, and sometimes contradictory, narratives for ideology that is rooted in concepts of time. For what is time but an unintended conceit, laid bare to navigate one’s impasse of misconsideration or proportional coveries…
