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Biography: Tim
McMichael (b. 1972) graduated from the Art Academy of Cincinnati
in 1994. He's since worked with many other artists and writers
including Jay
Bolotin,
Mark Flanigan, Mark
Fox, Dave Rohs, and Aralee
Strange. He co-founded Volk
C.S.P.I. ;a two month hyper active performance exhibition space in Over
The Rhine, (Cincinnati Ohio) in the summer of 2000. He has since been
showing locally and regionally. His show 'Linked' opens at the Weston
Art Gallery
Sept. 16 and runs through Nov. 12. He and girlfriend Ali Edwards are
currently expecting a baby boy, due October 28th, 2005.
Statement:
Before:
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures (1979)—the album cover
image of the first recorded pulsar, CP 1919 (the visual signature
captured in radio waves), published in The Cambridge Encyclopedia
of Astronomy, 1969, selected by Peter Hook, the bass player of
Joy Division.
Begin:
Exploring the building in which my studio is located, the David
Shoe Co., I discovered a piece of Masonite in a deserted bathroom.
When I first saw it, I was not certain what it was but nonetheless
instantly recognized it as something aesthetically commanding.
It wasn’t until later, after I brought it to my studio,
that I realized the artifact (which was last dated in 1969) was
actually comprised of a series of names, dates, drawings of cars
and the Apollo Lander, and multiplication tables calculating
how many seconds there are in a day, week, month, decade, etc.
That and a simple line game—evidently all by the hand of
Jim Paul Emmons, who I can only assume worked at the David Shoe
Co. from at least 1956 to 1969.
The drawing is a rectangle divided in half horizontally. The top half of which
is divided in half vertically, while the bottom half is also divided into three
equal parts vertically. The object of the game is to pass a drawn line (unbroken)
through each separate segment of the divided box without crossing the same
segment twice. Simple enough, but Emmons found it daunting. There are more
than forty examples of his frustrated attempts to find the solution time and
time again with an X on every place he crossed a line twice. And next to, or
on top of these, his calculations for how many seconds are in a century; all
this in an effort to understand, or placate, his sense of order or chaos.
At the same time, I was listening to a box set by Joy Division (Heart and Soul,
1997), and I recalled the image for Unknown Pleasures. I was curious as to
what the cover actually was and why it was chosen. I tracked down the aforementioned
info and included the title on some material studies I was working on. I started
making parallels to Emmon’s scribbling and the band’s inclusion
of the pulsar radiograph.
Peter Hook and Jim Paul Emmons were onto something that I found very curious.
The latter constantly checking his time against the bathroom wall measuring
stick, and the former choosing an image of a dying star; both chronicling and
preserving their place in time and, in doing so, trying to find order, leaving
their identifying marks.
Evidence / Artifact / Fossil.
Now:
Maps represent a significant construct of our identities. Linked
is not only waking modern amber, but also investigating the
need to document
one’s
place in impermanence.
Identity / Time / Oblivion.
Tim McMichael
Title
| Polar Fibernacci
Title
| Untitled (Material Study)
Title
| Untitled (Material Study)
Title
| Shellac'd #2
Title
| Ohio Honeycomb
Title
| Untitled
Title
| Mutated Illinios Pennsylvania Oxeye Daisy'
Title
| Untitled
Title
| Polar Stalk
Title
| Route
Title
| Hive
Title
| Hemisphere Bop
Title
| Transformer
Title
| Current
Title
| 'Mutated Ohio Morning Glory'
Title
| Managed
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