This performance represents the beginnings of Blank's career. Artists have a wondrous, often scary gift, and while I'm struggling, it feels damn good trying and embracing that part of me which makes up most of who I am. String instruments become body, phallus, tool, weapon, toy, symbol, machine, creature, sculpture, icon, and voice.
Keyboards become cybernetic architecture.
The installations link to historic events, cultural issues, dreams, and personal and collective memories. My art is a non-linear chronicle where time is randomly open to past, present, future, and to the labyrinth of memory. His multidisciplinary work Book of Roofs , projected on 3,000 clay roof tiles, is structured to allow a multiplicity of voices. Patricia Chang Patty Chang uses her performances as vehicles for disintegrated memory, intersecting physical challenges with disjunct methods and objects to create new meanings. I like to focus on anticipation as the embracing of anxiety.