Completely Incomple
[a body of work by Urban Robert Bauer]
"imperfection is perfection and perfection is not perfect."
I believe art provokes, it rubs you and you respond. How you respond is not important, so long as you respond. Not everyone is ever going to like everything the same.
As humans we have a strong instinct to express ourselves. We express ourselves through our actions. This includes what we purchase. We must understand that the way we choose to express ourselves is in accordance to the things we associate with, not good, but familiar feelings. If "bad" feelings are familiar to us, we are going to, perhaps subconsciously, express and respect bad things. This body of work hovers between unfinished and finished (good and bad, right and wrong, beginning and end...), to make this point apparent I consciously tweaked certain things [in this body of work] to question the norm.
I want to go against the grain, I want to run my finger nails down a chalk board, because what it does to my body may not be comfortable, but it is interesting. I am bored with the expected, so I strive to be unpredictable. I wanted this body of art to not "seem right," because right is expected. Right is boring and not interesting, because it is familiar. I say change it up, do something different before you despise everything besides the few things you think you know.
This body, or art presses on the idea that what we would consider to be ugly, unfinished, wrong, or ignorant are in fact good things. Innovation is a derivative of mistakes, or embracing the unexpected error. Art is practice, practice is experimentation, experimentation is flux, conclusions are plateaus. Therefore, I believe to conclude is to level out, stop moving, or to die. Life is not all healthy and good, I needed to embrace that, therefore this body of work's conclusion is the conscious choice to be inconclusiv. So long as I am alive a conclusion cannot exist.
A tip from the artist: Hang this work crooked.
