Brad Carlile Photo Blog

Lie back in the video lounge that TJ Norris has crafted for us to experience an endless city. Let the soundtrack by Christen Renou allow your thoughts to flow. The endless/seemless looping of two image channels on the ceiling provide impulses of the images of a moving city. Feel the fact that most of our images in life are becoming man-made. We live in boxes no matter how nicely adorned and move in other boxes to other boxes — letting images flash by. Most American’s don’t live in nature, we live on things on top of nature. All animals are either pets(to be petted) or pests (to be killed). Think about next time you see a suburban family all reaching out to pet a wild moose in a national park. …but I digress.

TJ Norris’s “infinitus” may be experienced at NAAU(New American Art Union) (922 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR) from 7-May to 22-June. It is 71-minute seemless loop. This is part 3 of Tribryd, and is the final component of this installation series that has appeared at other venues since 2003.

TJ writes:
“Imagine the entire globe manifesting itself by its interconnected man-made mini malls and the like. It is a viral sign, a shift towards the abandonment of the fragility of nature altogether.”

“…A cyclical break in urban origins, perhaps only in the hands of a wizard with a master development plan. Combine this with the synethasiea caused by the artifice of the inferred dance floor, the glittering globe transcending from the ceiling, a blatant metaphor of our fragmented planet.”

“…Something mono happens. It’s that very moment when space and time intersect, it can be nullifying, disorienting. When akin to the power of the line, the basic shape of anything that falls before air, frontal or shaped, becomes only the reality of the
flat surface.”

Don’t miss other work that TJ has at NAAU.

And of course there was the reception, here is part of the indoor/outdoor party as seen from the gallery. Much better to experience this work in the hushed silence of your own time.

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