A New Equation

Analog + Digital =

Painting + Video =

Art + Movement =

TEXTURED EVENTISM

A Testament to the Moment

in the Age of Screens

Envision the once in the universe entity inside of you feeling the experience of living your one and only movie — momentous, frame by frame. Textured Eventism is a distinct form of art that documents the event of the moment.

Using analog and digital combined, Textured Eventism reconstructs and forms a new view of the relationship between time and place, static and movement, the present and memory, and solidity and the ephemeral.

A time in reality is recorded cinematically and projected on and with the interpretation of a painting to work as a witness to an event existing within the scope of the past, present and future. The art is a textured event.

This notion reflects back to the prehistoric cave of Chauvet, France. Paleolithic artists created painted movies in the dark. A bull is painted with eight legs to create an illusion of movement, and a rhinoceros is displayed with a sequence of heads. All the images are in total darkness, forcing the ancient viewer to see them by firelight -- creating a motion of shadows bringing them into moving life. A shared humanity to our present fascination with the moving screen.

In a world of growing artificiality where algorithms produce — Textured Eventism is a testament to the moments we touch and perceive — even as they increasingly blend with the simulation of this age of screens.

“For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". — Albert Einstein, physicist..

 “There is a fundamental distinction between a still picture and a movie… You bring your time to the painting; the film imposes its time on you.” — David Hockney, artist.

Event: In physics, a specific physical occurrence that happens at a definite point in both space and time.