Artist's Statement
The irreducible aspect to 'Art' is that it explores relationships. "Cognitive Art" defines what this these forms attempt to achieve, in addition to answering a question regarding structuralism. Specifically that structuralism is indeed a fluid tool for discussing and understanding art, and not a discipline that one fits or modifies. Visual Cartography does not comply with the defining aspects of structuralism, "the belief that the phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations. These relations constitute a structure, and behind the local variations in the surface phenomena there are constant laws of abstract culture." My work attempts to go one step further and dares to suggest it is not belief, for belief implies 'not knowing' but that interrelations are tangible, mappable visually when one is in possession of all the variables. Then like a mathematical expression, it zero's out algebraically. Usually denoted as an axial arrangement that begins where it end, no vacuums or abominations. Full circle, like a well-crafted tale. The works fit the cognitive criteria posited by Berys Gault, in that, "Art can nontrivially teach us, and the capacity of art to teach is part of its aesthetic value." *(Barrett, 2008)
Art is the echo of a human being. A human 'arts' the way a tree 'leaves' by design. There is the present, 'living' moment and there is the re-present or representational, or art. It clothes culture while laying it bare. But always the costuming, custom, with or without intentionality. Art re-presents relationships. From the cognitive to egocentric. From cultural to personal. From science to fantasy. It is as old as perception, and as new as the readers, perceivers directed attention.
Art is the echo of a human being. A human 'arts' the way a tree 'leaves' by design. There is the present, 'living' moment and there is the re-present or representational, or art. It clothes culture while laying it bare. But always the costuming, custom, with or without intentionality. Art re-presents relationships. From the cognitive to egocentric. From cultural to personal. From science to fantasy. It is as old as perception, and as new as the readers, perceivers directed attention.
