Lynn Simmons
2007 Biennial Talk
Run Time: 6:36
The idea that each moment can be an event is at the core of my art practice. It has shaped my social and political views and has transformed my process in the studio and in the field. While traditional sculpture and materials still hold me spellbound, I am finding a voice through video that can translate more immediate cultural and social concerns.
In an attempt to challenge the spectacle of images presented through a barrage of media sources, I seek out strategies for resisting alienation and a sense of powerlessness by capturing common experiences. By observing and recording events from everyday life, shared patterns and relationships become self-evident and each moment can become a meaningful event. In Night Cove Walk there is an intimacy of simplicity, familiarity, and timelessness in a walk by the sea’s edge in the full moonlight, and in that walk, a sense of anticipation and possibility.
Working with video in this manner has unearthed locations where action can be taken by creating new conversations within the commonplace. It offers the opportunity within the everyday events of our lives, both individually and collectively, first to look and then to see.