Halsey Rodman

Projects
  1. Metronomes

  2. I Am Thinking of a Reverse Sunset
  3. Gradually/We Became Aware/Of a Hum in the Room
  4. Sometimes it is a Murmur, Sometimes it is a Pulse
  5. CC22 @ White Columns*** 
  6. THE ROCK*
  7. International Space Station**
  8. The Moon Bar

  9. The Wind at Night

  10. Triple Trouble

  11. Cave System or Ear Canal

  12. Towards the Possibility of Existing in Three Places at Once

  13. The Wolves from Three Angles

  14. It’s Not Getting Bigger You’re Getting Closer

  15. The Birds

  16. The Navigator

  17. Clouds

  18. The Navigators’ Quarters Must Not Be Disturbed


* with Pam Lins and approximately 24 named and anonymous contributors
** with Pam Lins, Trisha Baga, and 140 contributors
*** with
Ceramics Club

Contact/CV
Mark

Triple Trouble


Triple Trouble presents a series of works concerned with minimal difference. The term minimal difference refers to the pulse of difference separating one moment from the next, the continuous transformation of objects in time, the modulation of color, and the wavering constitution of one’s self from moment to moment. Minimal difference is a way to think of the wavering edges of things considered as an events. This show asks: If every thing is in a constant state of becoming different from itself, can an entity ever be considered complete? And if no thing ever achieves a “true” state, what possibilities are suggested by this aggressive refusal to accept a natural state for things?

Many of the works in “Triple Trouble” suggest a continuity as a “ground” to read this “figure” of minimal difference. A continuous shelf, beginning and ending at the front door, outlines the entire gallery, in a sense bringing the entirety of Kansas’s eccentric floor plan into the picture from any single vantage point. We can only see part of the shelf from any given place, but our awareness draws us beyond our position, always beyond our particular place — and, the shelf returns: how has it changed in its passage?

The shelf is punctuated by three near-identical lamps taking the form of Matisse’s metronome installed adjacent to the front window of the gallery. The light of the lamps is unwavering, an inverse clock to register the changing atmosphere filtered in from the outside.

Links:
“Cave System or Ear Canal” Book

Mark