Dozier Bell
Aether
Artist’s Statement
In these paintings, the markings of cartography and remote sensing technologies such as radar, sonar, and LANDSAT, are frequently superimposed on sky and landscapes, star fields, and other natural phenomena. I see remote sensing technologies as precise corollaries of mental processes: map-making, reconnaissance, detection, destruction, and deliverance, are as applicable to psychological and spiritual life as they are to global theaters of war.
Remote sensing technologies are, in some sense, twentieth century versions of the twelfth century German concept of Heimsuchung. Its original meaning - a visitation by God - gradually gave way to its use as a term for the singling out of a person or people for visitation by disasters such as plague, famine and war; and yet the term still encompasses these two extremes of human experience: everyday union with the divine, and the devastation and annihilation of the physical self and/or its environment. These images seek to encompass both our present-day awareness of the potential for destruction on an unprecedented scale, and the corresponding vastness of the divine.
Dozier Bell
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Seraphim 2
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Marker, click to enlarge
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Pneuma, click to enlarge
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Estuary, Click to Enlarge
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Conflict Series no.38, click to enlarge
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Conflict Series no. 48, click to enlarge
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Tehom, click to enlarge
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Starfield 4, click to enlarge
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