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GARLAND FIELDER

Plato described perceptible reality as an imitation of the ideal; a copy of the
true reality of which, consequently, we can only piece together a likely story.
This concept seems particularly relevant today in our culture of media
manipulation and “truth-i-ness” as it has been dubbed. What held Plato’s
metaphysics together in antiquity has been lost in our postmodern malaise.
This is a sad development, I think, and it is a sentiment worthy of revisiting.

A Likely Story is an attempt at just that. The Platonic solid forms are manipulated
in various guises that depict daydreamt off shoots of Plato’s idealistic musings.
For the Philosopher, each of the solids represented one of the base elements:
tetrahedron - fire, hexahedron - solid earth, octahedron - water-, dodecahedron
- aether and icosahedron – air.

The black paintings are riffs on diagrammatic constellations meant to convey
fictional celestial bearings, while the larger painting is a conglomeration of the
five forms, literally composing A Theory of Everything. The three-dimensional
sculptures are all sliced at mathematically prescribed angles that create the
illusion of emergence from an unseen dimension. They are literally of the realm
of ideals and of this imitative duplication, balanced on the line in between.
Similarly, the large red anamorphic wall installation pops off the gallery surface
and visually hovers in space, the viewer’s perceptual orientation brought
into question.

Dodecahedron for St. Sebastian melds a playful sense of modernity through
model rocketry with a reverent nod to the system of martyrdom (with all of its
consequent baggage). Similarly, the Space Suit Form with a Burden of Platonic
Solid Talismans speaks of a celestial-born longing for the past, in this case,
the Arcadia from whence the traveler originated and now pines for.

This nostalgia is built into every element of A Likely Story and is meant both
as a swan song and a blueprint for simpler times ahead.

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