Manifesto

What may, from the outside, seem to be a simple piece of art or structure, nature or even human being in essence has so many multifaceted layers with which there are so many ways to read or look at it, giving that object a fourth dimension. A dimension beyond our reality. As if the world around us, whether natural or man-made has a soul which is built up everyday.

This while seemingly beyond belief is present in our everyday lives whether we choose to see it or not.

While you may put something or someone in a situation, or a place, in which they are confined; a child to a room, a picture to a frame, it essentially means very little to the layers of the child or picture. Take it out of the area and you have a whole new person, a whole new way of looking at that picture.

Living with our selves everyday and interacting with people such as ourselves on a constant basis, and now with the ever growing abundance of new media and ways to communicate, our layers have become more obvious and easier to see around, under and in-between. Our layers are seen as more people are stepping out of the box and becoming individuals. However, it is the world that surrounds us, that we have not only made, but from which we have come from ourselves with which we have more of a problem recognizing the layers of. To abide by the boundaries of everyday life is natural, easy, safe. Yet, in the instant we start to deviate from that understood boundary is when a layer of ourselves emerges as well.

Transcendentalism deals with the power of nature and our surrounding world, and our own bodies, minds and spirits. These aspects; body, mind and spirit, take us away from the norm which we fall into daily and bring us outside of a place, and into a separate space.

Whether these boundaries are broken physically, mentally, visually or emotionally etc. I believe it is a necessity for one to not only experience but understand their experience to truly grasp the space with which they now fulfill. For our installation, we have made it possible for the minds and bodies of the viewers to begin to push the limits on their ever-secure and safe boundaries. In a society where the media has the power to control the minds, thoughts, actions, and over-all beliefs of a people, the boundary door to this nirvana-esque world is only but a hair open for us to peak out of. It is those who break open the door purposefully or not who can really appreciate the layers of life itself.

By bringing the outdoors inside where there are meticulously made pieces of art in a clean, quiet environment, people will begin to see a different side to those paintings and such hanging on the wall. The juxtaposition of the "nature" which is precariously placed so that it deviates from the way a museum operates, allows the viewers to not turn off the thought or visual or smell, taste, any sense of what goes on outside or inside as well, in a sense marrying the two together.

A child's innocent slightly less influenced view of beauty and art are the words that connect with the natural art. This in multiple forms, brings a sense of that layer of a human which technically stays with them forever, while some may hide it better than others, and allows it to begin to blossom through the door which was believed to have been more or less closed within themselves and their surrounding world.

To break these ever-increasing barriers on the mind, body, spirit, a society, an adult, a child, allows for a new space to be realized and a old place appreciated. To take the world we live in or the people we have around us for granted at any time not only binds one's layers but it makes it that much harder for one to realize the beauty beyond the beauty.