THREE EXERCISES IN INTERPRETATION

by Robert Healy


After all we drive around in them symbols we take them to and fro and we wear them and we look for them in potential friends and partners. Do we know how we lean on language and other made up systems to interpret our existence? And we look backwards in attempts to make sense of the future. Talking in tongues we all are.

Shapes and What They Do To Each Other

What is it?

By mingling and attaching elementary shapes and colors, the artist is able to examine how the principal systems of society overlap to create new ones, altering and affecting any sense of focus.



Squares and A Line

By experimenting with dimension as a natural lens through which art is viewed we can attempt to alter that perspective by introducing words, both as a direction for the work and as a window of interpretation for the audience.



Making our way across the page we intake information and relate it to databases in our brain, registering patterns.


Two Words

A word is a unit we chain together. A single word can have meaning on its own. Most words obtain greater meaning through the attachment of others. In this way we plot out larger groups of information: sentences, paragraphs, papers.

Are there ways more effective than words of relating the world to oneself?



That's the entryway. What are some other social praxes?

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Everyone is trying to make everyone else care about them and what they care about. Because of this we seek reflections.

We prosecute ourselves most harshly.

Where is your defence? Where is your defence?


Large and Small Squares