modyfier: process series

modyfier is a plurality: it’s an idea acting as energy, it’s an experiment in accrual (as a collection), it’s an attitude that rides creativity and freedom and its also become a part of me. it’s how i exist in my peripheral view, where i allow myself to be un-tethered. maybe most of all, though, modyfier has become an artist’s platform, developing through an ongoing deferral as people who participate each suggest someone else. i like how the process of participation creates its form, and how it shifts in directions i wouldn’t necessarily know to go myself. recently i read something matthew barney said about his early ‘drawing restraint’ work that really struck me: “i was thinking about how the body functions in training – how the muscle breaks down under resistance and then heals larger and stronger. i was trying to use that process of resistance to create form.”