I use my own position as an art maker to examine this reactive process. I set up flawed hierarchical relationships and work to undermine my own confidences, playing in my own conviction and desire for my brand of absolutism.
Tom Bendtsen
In all my works a balance is at
odds. A conflict is being played out between opposing
forces; nature to nurture, confidence to desperation,
strength to fragility, toxicity to purity.
These works are motivated by what I would call, a
culture of oppositionalism that is addicted to a reactive
process of constantly redefining itself. Oppositionalism in
culture may be as base as the positive and negative charge
is in physics, a symbiotic relationship that keeps entropy
at bay. However, it seems that in our accelerated times
this reactive process, progress as a virtue, has become
destructive. Inevitably new standards fall victim to old
inflexibilities as we stumble into the future. Our constant
quest to re-establish meaning on our own terms has led us
into an endless process of creating, defining and arguing
for it's own sake.
I use my own position as an art maker to examine this reactive process. I set up flawed hierarchical relationships and work to undermine my own confidences, playing in my own conviction and desire for my brand of absolutism.
I use my own position as an art maker to examine this reactive process. I set up flawed hierarchical relationships and work to undermine my own confidences, playing in my own conviction and desire for my brand of absolutism.