GAMES & WONDERMENTS Arthur Clay
The title makes a thematic reference to a collection of works where
the desire to create a state of mind that is more akin to the artist's intention of kindling a smile through artistic spoking rather
feeling the need to cover naked white walls with artworks that echo the trends of the moment. Here, the artist strips the white walls of
the art world and resurrects them in the mind's eye to
"view" at will and when and where and as one pleases. Games, stories,
cards, and recipies for a brief moment of curiosity of wonderment, cataloged in
a process of "transaction" between one and another for the benefit of
a third, i.e. the viewer. On the wall or not on the wall, more important is that everything is none the less on view
as proof of a concept, as benchmarks of a friendship, as a concrete but
pluralistic exchange tempered by season through season, and finally as a set of
collected memories forged into things made from the holy trinity of paper,
scissors and glue.
In the project 21st Century Games and Wonderments, Art becomes artefact,
artefact of an atmosphere of a non-social leisure class termed back then
as "down and out" and which today is swallowed, termless, and crowned
as a life style more unless depicted as being"untitled". The works depict a life style postured in an attempt to socially nap, or lead
an anonymous life while being
park-benched and while contemplating existence as formulated and dictated by
the neo-liberal, turbo-capitalist
mouthpiece: "We want you to want and to want what we want to want and if you do we will want more together with you!" In conclusion, the spirit that brought the works about and into existence is best described as an everlasting curiosity caused by unknown factors, precarious employment, random drinking bouts, life manifesting in the non real of the not yet lived, and balanced out with a jogging schedule to stay healthy to aid in witnessing the everlasting.