Joseph Finkleman: In Your Wildest Dreams
Long before Homo sapiens sapiens, and perhaps even before we were Homo sapiens, as far back as Homo habilis, we have pondered three essential questions.
The three questions are: What is our relationship with the external tangible world? What is our relationship with our interior world? What is our relationship with the unseen intangible world?
I have been fascinated by these questions for my entire adult life. We make stories to explain these questions. We make social institutions to explain these questions. We invent and reinvent strategies to cope with these questions. Lastly, we make art about these questions.
Over the last ten years, I have been inviting people to visit my studio. I prep them with three prompts. When they do come, I give them nearly no direction except to position them in the light. What I have been looking for is for people to share their interpretations of these prompts.
The three prompts are: When you get up in the morning and know you will be going outside to face the world, what is your 'outside face'? Everyone has an image of how they are perceived, but what is one of your inner faces? And the third prompt is in your wildest dreams, what could you be?
This exhibition is the third prompt. There have been 32 participants, and this is 20 of those participants.
