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Statement
"What I create is from the heart and mind of my days experience" © mark wiener 2010
cross narrative - "burningman" - 45" x 36 " - acrylic and sumi ink on vellum
"The stroke leaves a mark on the surface. is the gesture that started with a touch.“ © mark wiener 2005
Diary Excerpts - 2007 - 2010
“My diary speaks to the heart of the matter, my creation... it is reflection in the moment in-between my moments.”
Place: Walking on Park Avenue / walk to Chelsea "This is all about communicating a different way for me , eliminating color, the filtering of distractions and maximizing the surface so as to look closer at what I have always taken for granted. What lies in the shadows... and the shadows are my santuary." • Place: Chelsea Studio
My first classical concert, I was greatly impressed by the Timpani, the kettle drums in the orchestra. The rhythm, the vast resonance, the shape, the action of the musician striking the stretched surface all fascinated me. Recently, I was reminded of this when viewing film and digital media that have been made of me at work this past year . The microphone picked up the intimate sounds of my instruments - brushes, pencils and geometric objects, touching the substrate. Experiencing these as playback I realized that they have several facets - reflecting the sounds i of the city and my own steps where my narrative is formed as I walk and observe, refreshing the impact and emotion within me that was so struck by the drums years ago, answering in counterpoint the sound I hear around me in the studio, and joining with those sounds in driving forward the next phases of the work in progress. If the action of making the mark creates a sound, isn't that mark in a sense a score of that sound, something that can be recognized by the viewer as expressing music, even re-interpreted by an instrumentalist? In fact, it has also been the subject of an approach that I have been experimenting with in collaboration with the flutist, Yukari, with whom I have worked in public performance before, toward an integrated approach to creating auditory and visual art. At the studio, we staged session during which she improvised on the flute while I marked in dry media on large sheets of paper - as I heard and responded, she played her response to what I set on the sheet - each of us composing and conducting. Most interesting is that this was not a performance for an audience, and the end product beyond digital documentation of the surface and sound was 2 independent sets of quality works - hers as audio recordings and mine as major drawings, all created within the span of one afternoon. This work begins another level under the umbrella of my continuing "Cross Narrative Series," named for the the varying threads of sight, sound thought and feeling that infuse my subject matter and are manifest in the work as gestures, lines and geometric forms, in arrangements either symmetrical or "random." Adding consciousness of the dimension of sound is the current phase of this exploration of my mark-making as a visual representation of life.
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Place: A Museum A neighbor bumped into me this afternoon at the Metropolitian Museum of Art. He said to me, "it looks like you are waiting for somebody" my answer was 'for myself" and he parted.
The Studio is located in the heart of Chelsea on 21st and 11th Avenue., e-mail mwienerarts@gmail.com © mark wiener ./ beauArts, ltd , 2004 - 2010
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