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My name is Jason Palace and I am an artist and an educator
I am particularly interested involving other people
there, their handywork, their visions into my work
creating platforms for a group of us to do something as opposed to me
just giving you my personal sensibility, so the whole project all three galleries is called
Collage in Three Time Spans
we're talking about their is from
a initial stand point where your a student so that leads to
the student work in the Photo Four gallery to win your for
independent artist you're up and running on your own feet and that's my solo show
and then really when you start involving other people and interacting with other people
is really when you become
a fully formed more mature person so that's the Nattering Nabobs group show
in the Dulgar gallery.
I think there's so many different ways to think about collage, but what it is it's
not
singular and it's not, it doesn't follow a straight path it's allowing us
to kind of take
bits and pieces from everywhere in the world and then create our own
universe by choosing what we
include what we don't. that's a really more of an editorial process that is an
additive process
I think the students here at South Suburban are really curious and
inquisitive which is fantastic that's what you want from a student body
even in terms of them wanting to erase the piece with their bodies
I that's something I never could have dreamed of and I think it really adds a
whole new dimension to the peace
so I really appreciate their continued involvement. Each individual student
for example who contributed to the chalkboard, do you
any longer have any sort of well that's my drawing that I did
you know if you covered someone else's over if they cover you over, if
it gets erased
you know or does it matter anymore or is it about the fact that we're all
contributing to something bigger than ourselves
in
this piece is called "friendless" these are index cards
with people I work with the name, address, phone number
other little details about their friends the only thing that I thought was
interesting is that they're actual sort of
objects with information that were updated by hand and kept
in reality versus kind of our contemporary sort of
Facebook friend list and a sense of what a friend is I think it may be changed
time as well
I think we've kind of inflated friendship with acquaintance or someone
I would like to be,
meet, or someone that lives across the world that I don't even know I
these are all people who pass are looking at the addresses that lived
within about 30 miles of each other I think that some happens as our sense of place
in space
and relationship has really extended over the last forty years
I'd like to thank the whole community here in South Suburban because everyone's
really
jumped in with both feet and everyone together has created some amazing work
been a great experience for me and I think everyone
who's joined in and added.
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