ARTIST’S STATEMENT
1000 YEARS FROM NOW...................
Prospective time has been the central concept driving my work since 1978.
The 1000 Years From Now series reflects my deep concern for the environmental, political and social well-being of the world in which we live.
This concept has been explored by writing dates, lists of names, figurative and non-figurative painting and/or photographs combined with TV sets and mirrors as well as performances. They consider the layering of the physical, conscious, and subconscious experiences we have as individuals and as a global collective. In other words, this layering encapsulates the events, emotions, and conditions that link the past, the ever-changing present, and the unknown/anticipated future into an inextricable whole.
Each work is created by using a medium and process most appropriate to communicating the situation to be portrayed. At times this entails the use of charcoal, flame, water and debris collected from a particular disaster site.
Claude van Lingen
Austin, Texas.
1000 YEARS FROM NOW...................
Prospective time has been the central concept driving my work since 1978.
The 1000 Years From Now series reflects my deep concern for the environmental, political and social well-being of the world in which we live.
This concept has been explored by writing dates, lists of names, figurative and non-figurative painting and/or photographs combined with TV sets and mirrors as well as performances. They consider the layering of the physical, conscious, and subconscious experiences we have as individuals and as a global collective. In other words, this layering encapsulates the events, emotions, and conditions that link the past, the ever-changing present, and the unknown/anticipated future into an inextricable whole.
Each work is created by using a medium and process most appropriate to communicating the situation to be portrayed. At times this entails the use of charcoal, flame, water and debris collected from a particular disaster site.
Claude van Lingen
Austin, Texas.