Flashes Again!, Magnusen Park
Seattle, 2007

Music Samples
Is Doubt an Honest Question? Tom Baker
Doubt is an Honest Question Chris Delaurenti

VIDEO, SLIDE SHOW

Caught a photo, then the fire department dismantled the installation.
ArtCrush
Pilot Books, Seattle, WA 2010

Origin of this Artwork: Inside the Music, in a box is an interactive installation that originated from my studies of classical music. The piece is conceived from the experience of vibration, pulse, and change that is inherent in music and how such phenomenon can simultaneously cause us pleasure and doubt, just like the tensions and resolutions of music. The physical properties of this project were created upon a concept of doubt and forgiveness with doubt representing tension, and forgiveness representing resolution. The coarse, unfinished presentation of the room, the music played through a boom-box within the room, and the images depicting reflective, unanswered phenomenon all represent uncertainty because they offer ambiguity, incompleteness, low quality aesthetics, and confusion. However, this same presentation, coupled with the content of the music, and the unfinished dilemma of the images also simultaneously presents us with hope because it is unfinished. The incompleteness is the beauty because it offers the opportunity of potential: "What can be created from this situation?"

The experience of this project is created by the viewer who will visit the room with a flashlight, thereby seeing the images gradually over time rather than all at once, like music which must be played over time, and like our lifetimes. Likewise, the two different music compositions by separate composers will be heard simultaneously, so the visitor must spend time listening carefully to the music in order to ascertain an understanding of each separate composition. In other words, the initial impression upon walking into the room is that of chaos, but as the visitor spends time in the room, gradually things gain meaning and value. Just like in life, we are born into a wilderness of opportunities, which we gradually assemble into experiences that enable us to receive or create value about ourselves and the world around us. The final element of this art piece is that it is designed to express time as a vibration of recreation, choice, and endurance over time, like the human race has already succeeded in doing through many thousands of years. The pieces on the walls of the box are for sale ($5.00-$100.00 prices are located on the backside of each work) during this event. As you decide to purchase pieces and own them, and take them away, they affect change of the art piece for the next performance. This also affects me, the artist because it requires that I continually create images to replace the "lost" ones. I originally present an artwork to you, but as you affect the piece, you present an artwork to me in return that needs yet another response from me….and the musical vibration continues.