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In <lugo0001.809584841@gold.tc.umn.edu> lugo0001@gold.tc.umn.edu
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>I have done many video works, about 30 in all since I began my studies
at 
>the university of minnesota and have continued to do video work after
my 
>formal undergraduate education was complete.  I see myself primarily
as a 
>painter because I feel painting can best fulfill the quality of
vision, 
>which is vision and interaction with human, and processing of vision 
>through human.  The twentieth century has greatly expanded the
painter's 
>expressive vocabulary.  I say this to qulaify my forthcoming
statements 
>about how we see when we look through the lense.
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>Vision is a binocular, whole space process.  When we open our eyes we
can 
>take in our entire surroundings if we only face in one direction, turn

>180 degrees and look in the other direction, then arch our neck and
look 
>up and lower it and look down.  This process will ensure that the
entire 
>sphere of our environment is scene.  If we are interested in focusing
on 
>a particular object, we must through an effort of the will,
concentrate 
>on that object.  The cloud, the sun, the individual star, the leaf on
the 
>tree, the person walking across the street, the words on the
billboard.  
>All the time we are aware that the only thing which is holding us to
the 
>focus of that particular thing which is our will.  In most visual
fields 
>there are hundreds of things to choose from in any one specific 
>direction.  Literally hundreds, even thousands or hundreds of
thousands 
>of things in just one visual field.  Isn't that interesting?  How are
we 
>to choose what thing to concentrate on, to focus our attention on?
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>A lense makes this choice much easier.  It provides a box around which
to 
>focus our visual process.  It reduces the visual field to a specific 
>area, which depending on the adjustments of our instrument could be
very 
>small or very large, but it is never as large as pure vision and it is

>always in a box, which allows for analysis.  Often times the device we

>look through is also recording on some material, such as tape or film 
>which provides another interesting option.  This allows us another
step 
>of removal from pure vision.  Now the things which we look at are no 
>longer temporally bound.  If we record a birth, an explosion, the sun 
>rising, the wind moving the leaves in the trees, people walking across

>the street at a crowded intersection . . .these can be played and
played 
>again.  In real vision a process happens and then it is over and then 
>another process happens and then it is over, in continuous state of
flux, 
>of chaos and order chaos and order chaos and order. The camera allows
us 
>to fool ourselves into a sense of permanence about physical phenomena,

>although the thing which is recorded on to is subject to the same laws
of 
>disintegration and reorder as what is being recorded.
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>So I see two interesting things happening in these processes by which
we 
>experience the visual field in a camera, video recorder or film
camera.  
>One is the reduction of vision to a specific context which is always
less 
>than the actual visual field, a process which lends itself to analysis

>and exploration of the object.  And the other interesting thing is the

>recording of a linear event which then temporarily has the status of a

>non-linear event.  Again allowing for an interesting exploration of
the 
>object with the benefit of linear sequencing, or time as an additional

>quality.  
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>Chris Lugo
>Visual Artist, Video Artist, Performance Artist, Lawn Mower
>WWW Page at http://www.umn.edu/nlhome/g264/lugo0001/
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>  i was wondering what concept you are about to give
    credence to as you move inside the lawn mower
    and reflect upon the leaves as a linear experience
    via your lens within .. the eye will see all and the
    mower will be your body ... what lens do you figure
    on using for this experience?  

    are you moving by manual or are you powering it by
    the essence of your thoughts as seen as you discover
    new vistas being a mind within the lawn mower..../

    do u plan on marketing this concept or will it be 
    a celebration of one? by one? for one?  

    at what speed do you plan on getting your best visions
    at?  ten leaves per second or a hefty fifty leaves per
    second passing by your mind-stem associated with the
    visual acuity you are being found with... this new
    vista of being the MOWER MAN .. 

    sort of like going to Heaven and Returning...with video.

    concept is everything with the lawn mower man... 

    bill