Limited Fork Thylias Moss

Slideshow of "Mother's Day," a graphic prose poam in eight 20x30 panels, part of the Place.Mark exhibition opening 7 March 2008 at the Work Gallery on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Features text extracted from conversations that took place between Thylias Moss and Ansted Moss, beginning in 1999 when he was eight-years-old,

and features images captured with a digital SLR camera, a digital point-and-shoot camera, a 50x USB microscope, a camera phone, and a Polaroid camera.

Images of Thylias Moss shot by Strexx, all others taken by Thylias Moss.

An audio file of the Artist's Statement is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.

Slideshow of the window installation at Work Gallery - Detroit featuring "Cogs in the Glass Machine," a Detroit Intersections Project on which Jim Cogswell, visual artist, and Thylias Moss, text artist, collaborated.

The text may be downloaded in pdf format in another episode of this podcast.

Text of the window project in collaboration with Jim Cogswell for an installation on the windows of the Work Gallery - Detroit.

A slideshow of the installation may be experienced in another episode of this podcast.

Video poam stanza of the longer video study "Heat Dozens with Lightning Wings," with sound by Strexx of http://www.strexx.com who wrangled the sound produced by an Empire toy stove and used it to form the basis of damage control audio for the soundtrack.

This poam explores a system trying to organize itself, seeking a point of unification for its population, a theme that will have some joyousness tethered to it, too, for emerging, for existing, and for functioning as connective tissue

so while there may be multiple forms of elements of damage, the system functions and as a (newly) functioning system perhaps is headed toward refined function, toward further blossoming of increasingly illuminating ways to map the possible configurations of the members tethered to this system on multiple scales to varying degrees.

This is the situation in which the elements seek and locate connection points (that can also become, may have already been, may concurrently behave as bifurcation points --a network of activity that also establishes itself as a neural network and so is capable of acquiring forms of meanings.

Multiple forms of damage on multiple scales; the connection points themselves may be damaged, supporting configurations of a community functioning within compromise, which can be a generous habitat.

This video stanza is also a map.

There are locations of beautiful elements
and location of beautiful damage.

A video poam exploring the mapping of neural networks in the mind through the linking of memory, a toy stove, the body's physiological responses to neurological temporary neurological damage, and imagination. Ideas about heat from one hub of this network, a hub which allows this hub to connect with other idea hubs in the mind. Anyone watching "Heat Dozens" has an opportunity to form a memory of the video poam and to form a network of associations formed by elements in the video poam linking with experiences already mapped in the mind and with environmental experiences occurring while watching the poam.

The non-human produced sounds in the music track were produced by manipulating the oven door and heating elements switches of the Empire toy stove; these sounds were recorded by Ansted Moss and are the only sounds used in the instrumental portion of the soundtrack.

Made in conjunction with the November 2007 University of Michigan "Arts and Minds""learning studio" event in which leading international artists, scientists, scholars, activists, and students explored the interactions of art and mind. The actual Empire toy stove was part of the "Heat Dozens" presentation, the oven filled with a small format booklet (soon to be available in this podcast in psd format) featuring video poam stills pulled from moments of video frame interface. The keepsake memory booklet was available to any participant who opened the oven and removed a booklet from it.

EGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs in this low resolution version of the "Bubbling to Memphis" video poam for those with storage issues. The compression will be strained on those large LCD and plasma monitors, but on a portable device, it should look fine.

A video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces that may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series investigates what happens to notions of containment in such situations. This video poam is for Primus. Thank you for asking me for a video poam when I was in a location (the middle of an investigation) that lent itself to making one. Look for the "Bubbling to Memphis" soundtrack and the a cappella version of the soundtrack in the Limited Fork Music podcast.