Tony Bluestone

Lives and works in Prattsville, NY, USA

Artist statement

My work is an architecture that builds a passage from one state to another. They serve as thresholds, physical embodiments of this movement. They suspend this transition to allow for time to contemplate the fictions that we are so often caught between. These constructions point to the malleability of knowledge, and ask one to seek the underlying truth, so often obscured by delusions. This transition is molded within a structure which creates windows and frames for my deviant paths. I make lines which create space—the lines are physical, and the space illusionistic. I fluctuate between real and impossible; what is then materialized articulates a frequency rather than a replication. The edges of these pronouncements play into perceptual states, where we are permitted to wander through a haze of confusion. Openings stretch and expand beyond the limits of the surface. This absence is a form which is also a symbol; it is empty and full simultaneously. Here we cross the line between seeing and feeling, between imagining and actualizing. By stripping the works down to their minimal parts, I get a chance to look at the mechanics of our perceptual systems and how form shapes psychic relationships. These shapes become projected into so many layers of lived experience. A habituated state of imagination has a way of reproducing itself; this channel of repetition and reverberation is what produces the pictures I am creating. They are not replications of imagery, but reproductions of...

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