Artist
Statement 2000
Darren
Stevens
Chaotic
Order
Which way
do I go now, left or right, up or down?
I have
never been this way before, I have no past references to take from. Do I chance
it and go right, is that the correct direction, approach or even method, or is
it to be left.
How shall I
ever know unless I chance it, no approach is to be better or worse, each are of
equal value and will produce the same result.
Stick the
neck out and wait for the chop, does it come?
Multiple directions have to be refined, but through which method? Neither direction looks, feels, sounds or even tastes the better. Neither contains an aesthetic quality more heightened than the others. Perhaps it is just best to flip a coin or toss a die and except the result as the truth.
Order and
understanding out of chaos. Is chaos truly chaotic or is it that we know no
answer to the sheer coincidence of life. Underlying rules and limitations make
chaos perfect and continuous. Restrictions are what make life liveable.
Too many
biscuits on the shelf.
Close your
eyes and choose blindly, for they are all the very best.
Is there
ever to be the possibility of a true procedure of un-relational choice, or is
that to forever fall into the grounds of contradiction?
Elevation
of meaning to that of moral or the ÔrightÕ creates the stability within
society, but what is the true method of stability. Elevation of substance to
mirror that of life, produced through the elevation of moral right, balanced
precariously.
Infinity
does not invite true arbitrariness of choice. Limitations create the ability to
choose. Limitation creates freedom of choice.
Relativism
denies the ability for the true arbitrary.
Is the
calculation of 1 + 1 absolute or abstract, or both?
Mathematics
creates the basis for a level playing field. After that the arbitrary can
follow.
We all wish
someone else would decide for us, but what if, through hindsight, they are
wrong?