In the symposium entitled “Curating in the 21st Century” held at the University of Wolverhampton in 2000, Jeremy Millar discussed Artur Koestler’s coined terms “holons” and “holarchy”. “‘Holons’ are wholes that function as parts; a ‘holarchy’ is a larger whole within which these holons exist. Of course, the relationship between holon and a holarchy is one of scale, …as a holon is itself a holoarchy, while a holarchy, in turn, is a holon also.”1 My work exists as various discreet pieces, each piece consisting of individual elements, and series of work emerging from various groupings of like works. My practice consists of simultaneous attention being given to several different media, and a constant consideration of how the different pieces interact with the others. Each individual photograph is a world on its own, a “holarchy” if you will, but it is activated and enriched by the other photographs in the series and other pieces in the show. In more specific terms, I see the photographs as representions of voids, empty spaces, and blank proposals. The sculptures serve to fill in or propose answers to the emptiness, a sort of yin and yang. The writing and drawings, though, are equally key, throwing into question everything else, picking and eating away at the perfect union between void and mass; a self-destructive holarchy, which ultimately is a holon in itself.
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