Audrey McLean
(Also known as Auggie)
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2019-2020
“Let me repeat, all this has been said over and over,”1 let me repeat.
A 0 (zero) is a base ground, the only true level horizon, the only essential quantifier of a numerical starting point. It is the most stable of all the numbers, as it is clearly stated and translucent in the way that it can be broken down by nothing. It is exactly as it shows its form to be. It exists at the center of all numbers, the initiating point of the infinite sequences of positive and negative digits. Zero itself being considered neither positive or negative; a combination of both opposites.
Zero, in its most tangible illustration, is the moment that the object (number) and categorical system in which it exists no longer make sense. When any number is divided by 0 the result: error.
So, we think we understand what it means to be a number. And, to varying degrees, have been trained to properly use numbers through processes of mathematics. Still, by simply dividing a number by zero, we realize that mathematics itself cannot answer the question of these digits, as well as the fundamental nature of itself as a system.
It has been proven that there could be nothing but a total void if our universe existed in singular, rational, functionality. If the balanced systems we have constructed to attempt to understand and explain were in fact perfect, there would exist no possibility for event. The only possibility would be a perfect, still, balance. All perfect symmetry, all as equal sum. As zero. As nothing.2
My art practice has become focused on the use of free association to create objects that are evocative of or directly authored by the subconscious. Intuition, vision, fixation, and dreams serve as a starting point that then transitions to intention. In a manner similar to the way digits function in mathematics, I employ object, in literal physical form or by representation, as individual capsules of their own association. In some instance, this involves a process of combining multiple objects in varying expression of kinetic/static state, interaction, and implication, to create a larger vessel for a form of poetic statement.
Using assemblage and appropriation to engage systems of math and science, I create sculptures which, by art’s idiolect, present as statements that question the bounds of common rationality and its capacity to make sense. They ask questions which are neither answered or unanswered, but rather question the question they have asked.†. Yet, by existing, they are in form their own answer... The common rationality of general society becomes less and less something that makes sense. By forming a seemingly logical statement out of things that alone have no relation, I create meaning. Yet, if one aims to analyze, the works disprove their meaning as senseless.
The insatiable quest for sureness, for sense, is fundamental to the human condition. Constantly, we ask for explanation or explain to others. We use the measuring system of intelligence, founded in an individuals capacity to explain. Still, any explanation is subject to debate. Debate reminds us of the most possible fact that our reasoning may be found, seen, or experienced as incorrect. Conversely, often under the jurisdiction of social structure and systematic delegation of “power”, we may begin to lean on a tendency to settle at “tolerance.”2 It is here we neglect our own capacity to answer, forget that question comes before reason, and accept blanket statement as our own truth.
This is itself a great contradiction which serves to protect a system which has historically periodically resulted in the conclusion of (∀÷0). 3 Under the bounds of sense, all meaning is lost. Without it, meaning is infinite.
1 Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
2 “In an absolutely symmetrical world you would observe nothing—no objects, no phenomena.” pg 156 This Amazingly Symmetrical World, L. Tarasov
3 ∀ being the mathematical symbol representing "any number."
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2020-2021
My practice is inspired by the place where logic becomes illogical. By altering the relationship between line and spatial absence (in environment, object, and information) these objects and images are inert, in activated state. Contradiction is fundamental to the world in which we live, how we understand it. As the artist, I am the “external force” or mechanism of disrupting their state. Despite being still, they have motion. Existing in both a state of rest and in constant uniform motion they speak to the contradictions fundamental to the nature of the world and how we understand it.