Dead or Elsewhere
Category: Visual Art
Author(s): Tess Baur
Presenter(s): Tess Baur
Do you trust yourself? Should you? We don't view the world directly, but through the windows of our senses. Unfortunately, those windows are paned with multiple layers of thick, stained glass. Humans are intrinsically fallible, and our perception (the sensory process of gaining awareness of stimuli) is limited at best and distorted at worst. In a patchwork collage of a disconnected range of imagery, if there is any meaning to be found, it's buried. What is significant and what's just there? Everything is there for a reason (or reasons), but what? Is it possible to figure everything out, and if it is, is it worth it? Does it even matter? My work challenges you to question how you know what you know, what led you to know it, and the potential flaws in your knowledge. Doubt yourself. Second-guess your assumptions and interpretations. There are no wrong answers, no right answers, no answers at all. Only options.