IAIN BAXTER&: HERE / THERE

Posted: August 31, 2012 | Author: David Bellman

IAIN BAXTER&:

HERE / THERE

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David Bellman, CAUSA

August 31, 2012

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“A self-sustaining structure, in art as in life, is the only possible basis for a vital ideal.”

– George Santayana (1905)
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Document 1

Service employed to transmit N E Thing Company CB radio communication (between the North Pole and the South Pole) – from Inuvik, Northwest Territories (two degrees within the Arctic Circle), to the Antarctic, September 26, 1969.

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“The whole world, which is not self, has no hidden place; it is a single rail of iron ten thousand miles long which is not anyone.”

– Dogen (circa 1242)

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Document 2

“THIS STATEMENT WILL BE IS BEING HAS BEEN SENT FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.”

[Telegram – sent from Iain Baxter to N E Thing Company headquarters, North Vancouver, during a trip to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canadian Arctic Circle – September 26, 1969.]

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Document 3

Emily Carr (1872-1945), “Somewhere”, oil and gasoline on paper, mounted on board (signed and on verso signed and titled), circa 1939. [Courtesy The Art Emporium, Est. 1897, Vancouver.]

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Things to be remembered in abstracts:

Symbols & design may be used but design must be all over pattern leading out in all directions as if it were continued limitless but should be unified and a concrete thing in itself.

– Emily Carr (circa 1929)

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“Any environment tends to be imperceptible to its users and occupants except to the degree that counter-environments are created by the artist.”

– Marshall McLuhan

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Document 4

Mud slide, Kobe, Japan, 1961. Photo: IAIN BAXTER&, 1961.

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Document 5

IAIN BAXTER&, “Information Mural [Digital Conversion Code]”, stencilled paint, 2012.

A recurring template pattern of “zeros” and “ones” – displayed on every wall of the North Vancouver Museum’s “West Gallery” – represents (in binary code) the word “information”.

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“I see myself as an explorer of information.”

– IAIN BAXTER& (2012)

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