Ordinary Aura

jered
i have been wondering about this piece
why the particular shape- circle?
is there an organization?
how do you choose the images?

Adam,

The circle relates to a few things. Of course it relates to the auras or nimbus shapes found in icon/religious paintings. Additionally I was thinking of it in terms of an all seeing eye, some type of metavision. Other relationships have to do with a globe or dome or model of the heavens. This is some of the relationships that I have thought about while constructing the image.

There is no system for placement of images rather a balance of what seems this is depending on the viewer. The images are gathered from various newspapers that pass through my hands i.e. the financial times, ny times, am ny, the sun and others.

Here are all these narratives that tell the story of our time and are related to of course what has been and what is still to come. (Also there is nothing new under the sun)

A wish or longing of mine has been to pick up a newspaper and begin to read the different articles and to understand how each fits together.

In terms of ordinary aura, I see the piece functioning in a realm where it looks at the grand picture and even has a scale approaching that of the grand (history painting not quite but close). However the materials it is made from speak of the everyday newsprint that passes through our hands thoughtlessly or thoughtfully each day.
A narrative with meaning may strike us and its aura will survive more in our thoughts and memories and physical evocations of it, than the actual newsprint that has carried it.

I will be transporting it to GR by folding it up much like its original form in which I picked it up on the streets of NY.

Touching on the large and small of it.