Dewane Hughes
I am a deacon in the Cult of Hand, baptized in the viscera of human experience. It is from this perspective that I create, construct, conduct, and convert the viewer (spectator) from audience to witness. A witness has an understanding that an audience has not. A witness bears the responsibility of a knowledge possessed by only a few. A witness can give detail to the crime, explain the magic to the trick, and can preach to the glory of both.
Spectacle begets Spectacle: The psycho-kinetic creative process is NOT clean, neat or cerebrally encrypted, but rather bumped into on a dance floor when deep in a trance. It drops from adequate hands onto sufficient materials the way bellowed hymns filter out of rural tabernacles slightly out of tune. To make a joyful noise (joyful object), bravely play the fool in all grace.
"Blow Back", 2010, Mixed Media, 12"x24"x4"
"Story of My Life", 2010, Mixed Media, 10"x20"x5"
"CRUX", 2010, Mixed Media, 12"x24"x4"
"The Revisionist's Lens", 2010, Mixed Media, 12"x24"x8"