the art of
Charles Vincent
What's new?
2010 06 19: N:ever - Attributions to a Strange Cast
in Action and Area Projects
Drawing and painting
Sometimes it bothers me that I can't fly, under my own power, without a machine. It's a problem that I will never really solve, it will always be with me.
Dreaming further... Utilitarian buildings make me happy. Vacant spaces hide truths. Boredom becomes a mythology. These are the things that I am thinking about. The sounds and images are loaded with a feeling that I have done well by, and I am very loyal to.
There are ideas about image; I am aware that one of my greatest talents is to create a beautiful line. While the figures are beautiful, they are flawed. So I take great pleasure when I really use that line to its fullest, when describing any part of a figure that would be removed from a popular magazine cover image of a woman, like a "muffin-top" or "crows-feet". What the purpose is of this particular message of imbedding beauty in imperfection I will leave to others to decide.
I feel compelled to explore: The spiritual potential of the back of a shopping mall. The strange unspeaking generosity of the power grid. The anatomy of a basement compared to the anatomy of a wing. Instructional diagrams collide with modernist purism. The break-down of modes of perspective. Romanticism is the lost map of the new bleak. The Self and The Other meet and give each other the once over, just beyond the utility storage. Now it is time to open the signal feed.
Live video / sculpture
Using the reassuring unease of security TV, "A Gaze Returned" is art that looks back at the artist and the viewer. Unlike Galatea in the familiar Pygmalion myth, 
she does not explode her status as art object by coming to life, but instead rebels by closing her eyes and handing me an image of myself, repeating this action for each subsequent viewer.
We live in a world that has become more eager to be shaped by a mirror than by a hammer.
An ongoing project
Watch on these pages while this project continues. I will use any medium, media or 
method to develop the feeling that I am working so hard to convey. Pixels to dirt, anything is fair game if it suits the purpose and fits into the agenda of the atmosphere I am aiming for. As a canvas, this site is more catalogue at the top, but becomes its own artwork with Imagine The City! ...a project that would not work as well as a gallery or museum piece, but is best suited for you to experience on the computer of your choice, browsing the site over the internet. You have the best experience here at the screen, just as in a digging piece it is best with real mud.
Welcome to CharlesVincent.ca, the nude and figurative re-examined in a spatial metaphoric context. I hope that you enjoy these explorations. Thank you for visiting.
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