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  Eric Starosielski

    multi-disciplinary fine art   •   sculpture   •   documentary performance

   p o r t f o l i o

2001    Dealing With Who You Are in the Morning Hour

Pursuits are one of the larger themes of this work. Dealing With Who You Are in the Morning Hour explores the question of what the pursuits, destinations, and achievements are worth.  These works reference a point in all of our
lives when we did, or did not, awake to deal with the tasks of the day.

Only 9 More Minutes hangs across from No New Messages.
No New Messages, 2001

24 x 69 x 15 inches
steel, aluminum, plastic, heater,
cell phone speakers, sound, light, film

Heater hangs above ones head, with film at the viewer’s eye level.

Back-lit film images were taken with an automated camera of the artist asleep five minutes before the alarm clock went off, photographing seven consecutive mornings. Heater at other end of piece blows hot air from glowing wires onto the viewers head as one looks up. The heater oscillates on and off.  When the heater turns back on, the viewer softly hears from the cell phone speakers above each image the operator's voice saying,

"You have no new messages
in your mailbox."

This cycle is repeated continuously.

detail from No New Messages
 
Only 9 More Minutes, 2001

12 x 10 x 9 inches
alarm clock, solenoid, wood shelf

 

The radio alarm goes off every 9 minutes - the radio plays for 4 seconds, then the solenoid automatically presses the snooze button – turning off the radio.
The artwork cycles on and off continuously.