Ben Brandt
Stacks
Image Size: 7x5" on 13 x 10.25" Somerset paper.
This series is based on an idea of a sort of psycho-spiritual blueprint, or kind of like, in the parlance of contemporary art, what they refer to as the construction of identity. Some of the images are based on other paintings and sculptures I've done....see www.benbrandt.net. The piles of dirt and/or sawdust are the evidence of work; getting to the bottom by digging, and the picture molding pieces, I think of as little signifiers of transition, from one thing to another, or one world to another. The scaffolding is the framework, or the armature that provides support, for the temporary, shifting, and unrefined forms.
Stacks
Image Size: 7x5" on 13 x 10.25" Somerset paper.
This series is based on an idea of a sort of psycho-spiritual blueprint, or kind of like, in the parlance of contemporary art, what they refer to as the construction of identity. Some of the images are based on other paintings and sculptures I've done....see www.benbrandt.net. The piles of dirt and/or sawdust are the evidence of work; getting to the bottom by digging, and the picture molding pieces, I think of as little signifiers of transition, from one thing to another, or one world to another. The scaffolding is the framework, or the armature that provides support, for the temporary, shifting, and unrefined forms.