"Magic" (圖)

1. Forever by Miriam Hitchcock 2. Translocation by Karla Hoepfner 3. Grass field by Patrick Jacobs [artist statement] Patrick Jacobs The everyday world of the domestic landscape provides the subject matter of The Ortho Rooms. Taking its name from the popular Ortho Books for home and garden care, this series of works blurrs perceptual distinctions between painting, photography and constructed reality. Set behind lenses, these foreshortened spaces occupy the hidden architecture of the wall, offering the viewer an encompassing and magical view of the mundane - a backyard overgrown with dandelions, a kitchen linoleum floor pierced by the leg of a stool, a downspout clogged with dead leaves. Magic has long served to capture human imagination by seeming to make possible the impossible, and by turning one reality into another. Similarly, a kind of pseudo-science or homespun natural phenomena whose subjects are typically at odds with an increasingly anxious and paranoid world. In their manic attempt at achieving the impossible, it is only in their futile attempt at transcending their reality that they succeed. In the end, the gesture serves to tell a story about the impossible journey, rather than the destination itself.

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the second one is very interesting:)