Temporal Manipulation

Robert Scott Nance

When contemplating direction for my work, profane thoughts cloud my mind while my heart seeks beauty and peace. Reconciliation of heart and mind bring about acceptance with the pretense of logic and understanding. Temporal Manipulation is an exploration of humanity’s exertion of influence on the earth. I’m pondering the existence of any spiritual or natural connection while examining our physical connection to the earth in relation to a culture of profit. A culture, I feel, whereby the earth is inevitably assigned a monetary value and then bought and sold in the guise of necessity. We have a seeming desire to control or bring order to the perceived chaos of nature causing a clash between perception and reality. The conflict and coexistence of spirituality, physicality, necessity and commodity create an intriguing tension, which I seek to investigate. In spite of this tension, there exists a strange harmony, which yields peace for me. In the coexistence of host and parasite there lies an interesting antinomy at the crux of our existence. As elusive as understanding may be, I remain vigilant for connections.