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[god_jr]

THIS GREAT WEBSITE (if you have time I encourage you to spend some there, it's lots of fun)...

was designed for Matthew Lutz-Kinoy by Brenna Murphy brennabrennaaa as an oblique instruction for an installation

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[god_jr]

Hi Brenna. Oh, I'm so happy you like it, Matthew will be too. He put a lot thought into it, and like I mentioned, this is a very parred down version of what he was originally thinking.
When he came into the space he had pencils and broken figurines, gradients of colored sand, chips, tacks and such. He was keen that all the items be new or at least lacking of a history ... that their familiarity should come from their everyday recognizability. He also wanted, in the repetition, to capture some sense of the type of animation you do on the website. He felt frustrated as the piece began to get cluttered, which detracted from the various sequencing he was doing and felt untrue to the breath you give things on the website. This version was the result of clearing out some of the space and focusing on "making the work happen" with a few select items.

The plastic thing is a compact, and the dirt pile next to it is gold pebbles (like what might go in an aquarium). They are the same shade of gold as the swirlly design on the compacts, and near another of the blue ribbons are some gold fragments of a broken putti.

The plants are the one element that is literally animated (in slow motion). at the opening they were bulbs, but now as you can see, they're growing. I'm excited to see them blossom.

Another thing he had when he first came in were printouts of the a few sections of the website. He had done shots of them that included the scroll bar, so that by the different positions of the blue scroll tool you got the sense that you were maneuvering through a space that was now frozen. The printouts weren't working though, and what remains of them is the cutout purple sponge, so that is now flat and actually of paper. it's nice how that shape (a small ball/circle) gets repeated through out the work: in the compacts, the paperweights, the mugs, and the cut out. They feel like little planets in this 3-D gridded universe.