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  Eric Starosielski

    multi-disciplinary fine art   •   sculpture   •   documentary performance

   p o r t f o l i o


Constant Motion:
A series of work that documents humanity’s lack of mutual recognition in its quest for success and its unseen taxations to society (2005 – 2008) 


Press:
digital archival duratrans, glass, stainless steel, plastic, cold cathode light (2005)
60.5" x 8.5" x 8.5"

 


Video of artwork in motion (1.7M)
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Glass cylinders with images of different women’s feet (156) and men's feet
(156) continuously move towards and past each another.
Motor driven.

The first piece in this series, Press, focuses on people’s shoes and their brisk gestures. 312 images rotate inside two glass cylinders depicting different men and women walking along city streets. The rotation of walking feet captures the moment as people pass each other when they are caught up by the speed of the city and have missed the opportunity to interact. The viewer’s attention is forever split by the two rotating cylinders and is caught in the space between this fleeting blur of images. This skewered gravity represents the pressurized reality of the public realm that Constant Motion explores and highlights: our constant drive towards connections that are left unfulfilled.

 


 

 

Rendering of Disposition of Consumption: 
digital archival duratrans, glass, stainless steel, plastic, cold cathode light (2007 – 2008)
 Shown with no duratrans,
22" x 8.5" x 63"

Disposition of Consumption documents humanity's lack of mutual recognition in its haste for success. In this work, I use workaday attire to represent an individual’s power strength and acuity. Hundreds of photographic details capture shoes, ring fingers and hands holding briefcases or handbags; I then layer these images on top of magazine tears of advertisements. Creating a dialectic between public presentation & advertising.
These images are assembled into duratrans. Each of the 14 cylinders will be 20 inches long and together all the rotating images will compose a cinematic experience of rotating color fields full of images. The lighting inside each tube is a custom bent cold cathode lighting tube, so it will never burn out.

 


 

 

Drawing of Weight of the Day:
digital archival duratrans, glass, stainless steel, plastic, cold cathode light (2007 – 2008)
33" x 17" x 63"

Weight of the Day documentsthe taxation of contemporary life showing images of soldiers at war, the homeless and elderly. The burdens of society who individuals want to ignore, as they freely spend on feel-good products. This sculpture is suspended from the ceiling & consists of 28 cylinders (1 months time) twice that is represented in Disposition of Consumption, however it is slouched over symbolizing the body.