Hobart Hughes, Bunny man angers deer 1.
“I have always been interested in forms of consciousness, how they can be triggered and how they rupture or rapture. A lot of the early film work was the vision that a consciousness can construct. My very early drawings always tried to render the process of thinking. About 1994 I started to consider the consciousness we have when we dream. In particular I was curious about what I’d call dream slip. That is when we have a bubble of dream consciousness whilst awake. I’m not at all talking about daydreaming. Not in the sense of seeing a movie in your minds eye anyway. No what I’m talking about is that extended and very focused thinking that often starts with for instance by observing a tiny pile of sugar crystals on a table surface. A first we view it as a metaphore for let’s say your relationship. A loose arrangement of individuals…”
Hobart Hughes, My Approach, from his website. Currently exhibiting the above work and others in Animals Attacking People in Animal Costumes, at Damien Minton Gallery.
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