The New Charlie Close (AHOTE)

I can't stop.
My Opponent won't let me
And I can't even call on a friend
My opponent is crafty
He knows just where to hit it
He comes along hard,
He comes down with his fist
But I can't go along with that don't ya know?
Theres too much at stake and too far to go
It's always been that way
It never seems to end
One moment just leads into another and there you are again
I know that you are offended by the sight
Of a clock with both hands on twelve
I know they got it in for us down there in hell
But I know a place for you and me
Where the doggies run wild
and so do the trees
Sprawling off into the hills
There's a golden green haze in the air
And nostalgia assails you like the phone
It's the people who call on you in the night
sayin' "lets get along now lets not fight"
improv words and music copyright Sean Connaughty 2005
me and my song.
The New Charlie Close, pays homage to Chuck Close. I was thinking particularly about the self portrait at the Walker Art Center, which I spent so much time viewing when I was a guard there a long time ago.

Recently, I have begun improvising with words. Employing the same strategy I have used with painting. It's the same fascination that draws me to me to painting, watching a live thing emerge from a random collection of information. I am curious about the nature of those narratives and where they come from. I find voice to be an extremely ergonomic tool. It reacts almost instantaneously, a very responsive medium, while painting requires a host of technical requirements, and requisite materials. Video though technically cumbersome in the editing phase, allows for the immediate capture of moments in time. Through these two new mediums I am able to explore the parameters and expectations that come in the form of baggage with the mediums. I like to push these parameters.

I have found that images and narratives have the most impact in their emergent state. I have begun to refer to this as the four track aesthetic. It is a phenomenon I have harvested extensively in painting., and now with video and audio. These are autonomous forms which emerge spontaneously apart from my intentions. The imagery is allowed to establish its own relationships. The narratives are evocative, and interesting dilemmas emerge as different media and conceptions of art both collide and inform each other.
This is part of "A History of the Earth" (AHOTE) Sean Connaughty
It's pixelated just like c. close.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Contemporary
• Art
• AHOTE
• Realism