Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Artscope Magazine: Nathan Stevens

NATHAN STEVENS
Taryn Plumb
 


From a distance, it is a billow of color — bold greens, pinks, oranges and blues — seemingly emanating from an empty trashcan. Step closer, and you realize those bits of color are actually squares — sticky notes, to be exact.
Still closer, and you see the random and scattered black marker scrawlings. 
“Learn to speak German.” “Wait for the bus.” “Be a better husband.” “Constitute a nation-state.” “Administer some medicine to a dog.”
Composed of 2,600 sticky notes, Nathan Stevens’ installation, “There are many things I may never get to do,” is essentially a thought cloud, a physical manifestation of the stream of consciousness.

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