mnartists.org: Thomas Boyer

I miss you a lot

Thomas Boyer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:57:49 GMT

Boat Yard

Thomas Boyer — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:45:35 GMT

Critical Theory

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:23:14 GMT

This image derives from the amount of time I have spent thinking about, trying to understand, and ground, critical theory. The project has expanded to reflect on what has governed my thought process regarding art, philosophy, life, and a little bit of play in my current state of mind.

image: Critical Theory #2

Restoration

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:22:32 GMT

Anterior Cruciate Ligament is a layered composite of photographs taken while lying on the operating table. This body of work enables the viewer to visualize the perspective of the patient during arthroscopic reconstructive surgery [knee surgery]. Through the cloud of anesthesia the viewer searches to find the familiar but is presented with an ambient glow, sterile machinery, and translucent personnel while asking - where am I, who is in the room, how long have I been here, what are they doing… as the notion of consciousness quickly fades in and out. The operating room has been reserved for our electronic picture windows while our fly on the wall role keeps us comfortably at bay. This body of work moves beyond the picture window enabling the viewer to progress through the image as if they were remembering the surgery themselves. Although the event captures an operation done on the artist, it is far from the cultural standard of feminine beauty found on the artist Orlan’s operating table, and resembles the first person perspective found in Julian Schnabel’s film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as the camera lens becomes the viewers eye(s).

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závada

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:07:14 GMT

These pictures focus on a subject that no longer exists, except on film, as they are visual reminders of the flaws within the craft of glass making. Similar to the mass consumption and waste imagery of Chris Jordan I have an interest in this process/ subject of these discarded materials, and how the layering of subject directs meaning. Discarded glass, cullet, is presented not as trash but as a texturized layered translucent image that is set aside to be melted down and recycled. This body of work captures the layered qualities found in my other bodies of work but accents the "real" rather than the composite.

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r.y.e.

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:58:42 GMT

r.y.e. is an on going collection of images representing the classic composition. The project pays homage to the forefathers of the medium focusing on various movements in art as well as the foundations of art: principles and elements.

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Mirrored Equivilence

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:57:19 GMT

Iron Nouveau

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:46:33 GMT

cope

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:44:03 GMT

This body of work is most certainly a reflection of its title; the notion of coping becomes synonymous with the imagery. Photography has given me the only language I have found capable to express my emotions into a single life-altering event that occurred at the age of 4 and has effected me ever since.

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1in15

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:21:01 GMT

So many facets of our experiences are layered. Sometimes so interlaced that the layers merge to create a new experience as the original becomes altered in its memory. 1in15 portrays such an event as it pictorially encapsulates places, people, textures, smells, aesthetics, depth, altitude, and other residual compounds that construct the visual memory.

image: 1in15 - Hamr Dobriv Ctyri.

image: 1in15 - Karlstejn Dva

image: 1in15 - Kost Tri

image: 1in15 - Medvedin Ctyri

image: 1in15 - Praha v Vecer Dva

Exodus

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:13:02 GMT

The work presented is a visualization of my time living and traveling in Eastern Europe. The illusiveness of time imposes itself while constructing space to simulate fragmented memory. In this context, of memory, one is consciously forced by ones inquisitive nature to condense all we can into a blurred event, triggered by a common visual reminder, which has been layered with experience.

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príti stanice

Thomas Boyer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:09:19 GMT

Priti Stanice presents the viewer with photographed images presented in a grid-compartmentalized-pictorial of the metro system in Prague, Czech Republic. With no identifiable beginning or end the viewer is left to construct his or her own narrative. They choose where the journey will go, what the destination will be, and when to get off. Príti Stanice translates as "Next Stop" and, the work captures the beauty and vividness of each metro station on the A line, as well as of the cyclical commute itself.