Thinking
Inside the Box
By
Tom Wachunas
The
Massillon Museum’s Stark County Artists
Exhibition will be on view beginning November 2nd, and will run through
January 26, 2020. On, Thursday, November 7, from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm,
there will be a FREE reception in the main gallery, now called the Aultman
Health Foundation Gallery. Awards will be announced at 7:00 p.m.
Massillon
Museum, 121 Lincoln Way East, downtown Massillon, Ohio Phone: 330-833-4061 / The Massillon Museum is
open Tuesday through Saturday 9:30am - 5:00pm, Sunday 2:00pm - 5:00pm
I’m pleased to report that
a recent work of mine, Deus ex Machina #3
(the third in a series), was
accepted into this juried exhibition. I think of it as equal parts freestanding
sculpture (an altered computer tower) and 3D drawing (graphite and a bit of
photo-transfer).
A blessing and
a bane. A tool and a torment. A fertile world
and a wasteland. The Internet. The cloud. The web. What have we wrought? The
imposed scribbles, smudges, symbols, and scripts constitute a calligraphy of
sense and nonsense, truth and fiction. A 3D essay on confounding dualities. My
intent is not to posit answers, neither to condemn nor to glorify, so much as
to raise questions. So what indeed have we wrought? A treasure chest of
incalculable riches, or a Pandora’s box of unspeakable ills? A servant, or an
inscrutable taskmaster? Digital Deity? The god of our age?
I hope to see
you all at the reception on November 7.
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