LIFE ON A SLICE Artists' Statements

For the last 30 years, I've worked through a range of light emitting media from stained glass to large-scale kinetic neon and glass walls with computer controlled light sequencing. When personal computers came along it seemed a natural transition. What surprised me ( and delighted ) me the most however was that as Voice Garden emerged, I began to reach back into lessons I had learned in Chinese brush painting with my teacher Shiou Jang Hsieh. While these pictures were generated in the computer, not on paper, ones heart has a sureness about what sensibilities to store and replant some later spring.

Which brings us to Voice Garden....
Voice Garden, Labyrinth of Love, Labyrinth of Desire is a metaphor. You can consider it your own personal epic theater. Will you make the heroic choice at the " Boundary between Self and Desire "?
Don't forget , amidst all the "strum and drang", to read the ancient love poems from Indian, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese and Sufi traditions in the Labyrinth of Love. These are topped off with a contemporary poem ( perhaps of a Celtic sensibility) by my son Hans Reiser .

BEVERLY REISER

A pretty picture is one thing, but how much more powerful it is with a poem of love, how much more alive an animation is when with sounds of hips swishing, how much better that yin be filled by yang.... I've always been a cynical idealist at heart, and in working with a lyrical romantic with decades of drawing experience, and with a talented musician like Bill, I think we have done so much more than we could have done separately.

It has been frustrating and deeply rewarding to work with my mother in bringing poem, picture, and Bill's guitar into a new art form. At the time I write, there is no art CDROM market, and there is no CDROM one would think to give a beautiful woman on Valentine's day, and yet I know that in but a few years it will all change. A new medium is born, listen to it scream not enough conventional memory. Smack it please, and then give it a bottle.

HANS REISER

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