Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thur Nov 13th: troubled











Troubled: verb

to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate

In the current conditions, fear and lack of trust are causing stress and worry to mount in the minds of the American people. At the 2008 California Biennial, artist Patrick "Pato" Herbert's installations, "Text Messaging: 1,000 Points of Might" deals with these very topics. Hundreds of signs, which appear similar to campaign signs, litter the entrance to the Orange County Museum of Art.
One critic relates the visting ecperience on his blog, http://imoralist.blogspot.com/.

"For a few anxiety-filled moments we were stepping, shifting, and turning amid a sensory overload of knobs, dials, pedals, mirrors, gauges, and oncoming traffic.....
It may be said that the zeitgeist of our time is sensory overload, and our brains are suffering the overwhelming input of record-setting art and oil prices, seven years of Middle East war, global warming, two years of presidential campaigning, and the pillaging of nations by the rich and well connected from America to Zimbabwe. It has been a rough start to the new millennium...."

There is very little information about the work of Patrick Herbert online; I was only able to discover that he lives in california and his normal medium is photography.








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