little colored objects have come to rest on the floor. In this way, the installation seems to move between dimensions; visually flat, but spatially three-dimensional. What are your thoughts on the space you have made? How do you want the viewer to “be” and “act” in the space and with the work? When color interrupts, what is the intention? EV: The intention is for the viewer to walk through a field of debris and for that field to be designated as other space. For me to make a black field is to make a field that is clearly not the earth, but something or even somewhere else.
The Guide in this way is a bit of a “field guide” to this section from the field of cultural debris. The debris are casts of cast-offs, remnants from the record.
Color makes me think of life and pleasure. What exists outside life? Why deny the generosity of simple pleasure and joy? Can’t art be both engaged and joyful? Or does engagement eclipse joy? Can an artist be generous? Or is the role of the artist always one of self-interest? I don’t think so.
Empathy is a two-way street. Artists should aspire to make the work they want. People should be inspired to engage. I never feel like I can tell someone what something is about. It’s not that I don’t have my own thoughts about that, but wouldn’t that be a type of fascism? One should live their politics. I hate to be extreme here, but we live in conservative and extreme times and everything counts.
KK: Do you think a stone can speak? Do objects have a voice? EV: Only if you are listening.
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