Monday Post, 10/6/14: Dustin Yellin Psychogeography 43 | 2014 | Glass, collage, acrylic | 72 x 27 x 15 in. Close up of one of his Phsychgeograph About Psychogeographies: In 2011, Yellin began a series of life-size figures, a collection of entombed quasi-humans inspired by the two-thousand year old Qin funerary army of “Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses”. Yellin’s figures grow from thousands of antique clippings assembled in dense, tangled cellular silhouettes, as if man himself is no more than loose, disconnected images, a knotted form animated by partial truths. Other men are only ghostly wisps of vapor. These spirits sprout limbs of fog, spines of steam, humid heads. They are beings without a solid or permanent existence: transparent, dissipating, ephemeral. Still others are Siamese twins whose deformed extremities explode in animate color. All underscore disquieting realities of the human condition, revealing morality as a relative construction and ethics as a subjective prejudice. Our brief, fibrous existence and unequivocal mortality is laid bare.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:48:05 +0000
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