DAN HESS
Early on I became aware that this construct or container we encounter the world through is in fact a membrane or threshold between internal and external realities, each contending for custody of my worldview. My drawings and video installations occupy this chiasm, poised between two polarities; both now and then, coming and going, present and absent. The integrated architectonic, theatrical and physiological structures are a substitute for the lived body and reveal that a transition between two states of being is taking place. The painterly passages and video elements represent the unconcealed genetics of each unique work, containing both the memories of the past as well as the potential for the future. My intent for the work is that it hover at this crossing or limen, where that inner dialogue of heightened expectation is most audible.