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>> I'm going to start with just a little bit of background
about myself because I think there's some pieces
of information that are pretty crucial to know
to what we're seeing there,
and that's that I have a long history of being an athlete
and just being really physical starting
with playing soccer while I was seven years old
and really haven't stopped since then.
I've been playing ultimate Frisbee for the last 15 years,
and this work sort of comes out of a vocabulary movement
and specifically physical movement,
and even more specifically, athletically physical movement.
So it's a language that's sort of rooted in your body,
and it sort of speaks through movement itself.
And so part of what you're seeing here is that, is a,
an attempt to speak to you through your own body so that
when you walk through here, you sort of relate
to these 2works on a bodily scale.
And also it's infusing that language of physicality
with the language of drawing because these are drawings.
And when you have a sort of practice in athletics
and in pushing your body, you're sort of always figuring
out what can you do, how far can you go, how long can you go.
Think about those times in the gym when you're, you know,
doing something, and you get to a point where, OK, I'm tired
or maybe I can go a little bit longer, and you sort of starting
to play with that line of what are you capable of,
what can you do.
So that's sort of pushing myself in terms
of body limits has always been present
or is present in this work.
In this work particularly, I'm also trying
to push materials to their limits.
So I'm trying to see how much line can I put
down before it stops becoming mine and becomes fields.
So I'm sort of trying to play with that [inaudible] a bit,
but, but this work here.
Also, this, this is called "Wall Sit Relocation", and that's more
of a description of I did a wall sit here against this wall,
and erased it from this field of charcoal and then sort
of replaced it over on this wall.
And whereas in other past works, I've sort of framed my work
around how much can I do in a certain period of time,
or how far can my body go until I reach exhaustion.
Whereas this work wasn't framed quite the same way.
It was how far can I press the materials
until they're exhausted, and so I set up different structure
where it's more like a workout structure
where you do something, and then you take a break, you rest,
you recover, and then you do it again, and you take a break.
So here, after covering the wall with charcoal, I did,
for one hour, I did wall sits where I did two minutes
of wall sit and then a three-minute break,
do a wall sit again for two minutes, three-minute break.
For those of you who haven't seen it, a wall sit is
when you just sit against the wall, flat surface
with your legs in an, in an angle like this,
and you sort of, you feel like you're in your quads,
and especially closer to the knee.
This is also a really good exercise, by the way,
if you have bad knees, and it's uh one
of the first things the doctors tell you
when you had knee surgery about getting your, your knees back.
So if you had a bad knee or bad knees, bad backs, do wall sits.
[laughter]