After all, objectivity does not consist in
suppressing an unavoidable subjectivity, but in so acknowledging its intrusion
-Denis Wood
Spanish artist Luis Toledo, aka La Prisa Mata, blends images of environment and culture to facilitate an interaction between objects and our subjective understanding of them. These interpretively complex pieces at once juxtapose and relate man and nature in aesthetically pleasing, unified compositions.
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Recently I had a nightmare in which I was lost in a grocery store, unable to find what I was looking for. The aisles were a maze, complete with dead ends and misleading characters who “worked” for the store but ultimately sent me in the wrong direction, always. The shelves were tall, packed with items that overloaded my mind with labels screaming jibberish. Some of these items would deceive me, take the form of what I wanted (I want to say it was beer) until I brought them to the cash register, and looked down, and realized that what I had held onto was not the right thing. This cycle repeated itself as I searched that grocery store for hours, scared, frustrated and lost, wondering if it was too big for me to know, or if what I was looking for wasn’t there at all. But I couldn’t, wouldn’t let myself walk out of those big motion-sensor doors without what I came for. I woke up and felt like I was still looking. Now I feel very anxious in grocery stores.
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