Joy Douglas's Posts - conectom2024-03-28T22:27:26ZJoy Douglashttp://conectom.leimay.org/profile/JoyDouglashttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1225504769?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://conectom.leimay.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=34ahaqw7qr3b2&xn_auth=noPERCEPTIONS // PROCESS // NOXtag:conectom.leimay.org,2019-05-07:5831649:BlogPost:950672019-05-07T02:48:04.000ZJoy Douglashttp://conectom.leimay.org/profile/JoyDouglas
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<p><span>PERCEPTIONS // NOX</span></p>
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<p><span>PERCEPTIONS // NOX</span></p>
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<div>"Every night comes to an end. Before the dawn it can serve as the new dawn of the world that others are hoping for. That's what I want the most." OnePiece</div>
<div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-fe606c0d-7fff-30ca-54d7-32e7af742dfa"><em>Nox</em><span><em> </em>explores the feeling of the moment before something happens. It questions the existence of liminal spaces as feelings rather than physical spaces. It is about being fully in the moment and whatever that means. It is about ephemerality and humanness. It is a constantly evolving work. It is the dawn of a new world that is yet to be.<br/></span></span></div>Perception // no thing - a contemplationtag:conectom.leimay.org,2019-02-28:5831649:BlogPost:923732019-02-28T20:31:57.000ZJoy Douglashttp://conectom.leimay.org/profile/JoyDouglas
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Jim Livingstone in Custer, South Dakota.<br></br><br></br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Perception // no thing - a contemplation</strong></span><br></br></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is no thing? If you were to do a study in no thing where do you begin?…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Jim Livingstone in Custer, South Dakota.<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Perception // no thing - a contemplation</strong></span><br/></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is no thing? If you were to do a study in no thing where do you begin?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I started with what no thing is to me. No thing is the great absence, it is the place of infinite possibilities, it is the space in between sentences and then the silence before the words you decide to speak are formed in your mind.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If I learned one morsel from this project, it is that no thing, is not nothing.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I started by studying silence. Listening to it, letting it wash over me. From there I played with movement that highlighted and played with the silence that was there. The constant was that silence was always there, holding and making space for ideas. I only needed to be brave enough to put something - anything - out there.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To speak about this project I feel I need to add a little subtext to who I am as an artist and what I believe in. I am here making art, making dances because often my work somehow has that rare capability to touch people or rather more often one singular person. I am here for that one person who comes up to me after a showing to say that they were really touched by this one movement or they felt something for the first time in too long. I am making art for those who need it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No thing, a study.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No thing, a study of</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">absence.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does that make you (the audience) angry? And if so why? Are you angry because you feel that your time was wasted? Because you didn’t like what was offered?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No thing, the reflection of the audience themselves.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What do you see when you sit in silence?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you uncomfortable? And if so, why?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is the point of art if not to make you think and feel?<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>This article is a contribution from 2018-2019 <span class="il">LEIMAY</span> Fellowship Artist Joy Douglas. The <span class="il">LEIMAY</span> Fellows are a group of local artists working individually throughout the year at the <span class="il">LEIMAY</span> studio.</em></span></p>