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The Design of Things
Ideals relate to the formula of nature. There is the phenomena (activity) and the environment and the materials which belong to these (substance). Humanity is discordant with the activity and substance. Aghast at the motives of the relationship, it escapes our eye-distracted.
Reality in the Nature
Do you believe in bolts from the blue? Do you believe in the blue, the sky? In this time, not many of us do. There are those to whom the vast blue vault is a myriad of patterns dark and light. Bees perceive polarized light to negotiate the direction of the sun. Birds are sensitive to the earth's magnetic field and use it to navigate huge unmarked terrain.
Pure Promotion
Just as bees see the sky in a way that is invisible to us, Karen Turnbull filters the landscape. Turnbull is able to distinguish pure form from artificial in a. arena laden with both. An aura surrounds life-force organisms. The pure forms are those which simply exist. All things non-constructed, just born. Unable to go further than being, complete and finite, they are an answer unto themselves. Promotion, the title of this exhibition, refers to the promotion of these objects. A celebration of structures not usually seen as spectacular. In the solid, stony white basement of Arch Lane Public Art ten large black and white chalk drawings on paper were hung. From left to right, 1. Eyeball; 2. Rabbit; 3. Goathead; 4. Heart; 5. Flower; 6. Birdnest; 7. Deerhead; 8. Pineapple; 9. Mushroom; 10. Bird (the drawings were not titled , simply numbered one to ten, I refer to the matter depicted in each). Realistic subject matter emerges via