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toward a still life

Nothing ever turns out just how you want it. When I was carving this piece into the wall I faced many problems. During one of these periods I was sanding furiously, trying to overcome a particularly stubborn fact. A fine dust filled the gallery, and it was very beautiful to turn around and watch the slow waltz of particles in the light. I was reminded that in chemistry, a solution is when a gas, liquid, or solid is dispersed homogeneously in a gas, liquid, or solid. I felt grateful for the creation I was unwittingly making, but I was also aware that the dust would eventually settle, that this was only a temporary solution.

It was a real relief to clear away what wasn’t needed, to figure out that sometimes the solution is just rearranging the problem. In this case, working toward a still life meant turning my back on the thing that was most pressing for me at the time. Sometimes you just need to focus on something different.

A picture of the stars walked around the city in my pocket.

gains on losses. John Ward Knox at Enjoy Gallery.

Butter paper screen over windows. Also Gabriel Orozco's 'Estella'

Events that happened at Enjoy while 'gains on loses' was exhibited

John Ward Knox artist talk.




Greg Malcolm's musical set and Peter Trevelyan's light installation. As a part of the White Fungus Relocation Party
images by Kimberley Lorne-McDougall Gustavsson




Hue & Cry Issue Three launch party, Readings by: Airini Beautrais, Bill Nelson, John Summers
Including performance by Raised by Wolves.
images by John Lake



Native American contemporary artist James Luna public talk.

gains on losses reviewed by Thomasin Sleigh in The Lumière Reader
http://lumiere.net.nz/reader/arts.php/item/2108

Keng Pin Hsu and John Ward Knox at 448