Scott
Henstrand
Contents
Excerpts
from Introduction to Aphorisms: Other and Place
…bypass
commoditized alienation and/or connectedness in viewing…
…
started as a result of work with students.
In observing their struggle for identity and in making sense of symbol
system manipulation, I found a need to explore my own uneasy relationship to
language and self and, in this, study various systems of self in
philosophy. My visual presentations are
an attempt to view the boundaries of text and experience.
…
differentiate from Lacanian
terms such as other and Øther. In this
study, other refers literally to individual organisms and/or events in
Place; Other refers to each individual’s drive to not-this/here; aother
is used when referring to a specific individual’s mechanisms for the
manifestation of Other; and Œther refers to cultural mechanisms for
the manifestation of Other. There is no descriptor for the
“individual-in-itself” and will henceforth be designated with ¬.
…used
drawing on paper and the modification of the silvering of mirror to explore
this theme. What do the drawings and
mirrors point to, reflect, whisper toward?
Our human desire for unity, our passion for an identity that is
whole. We never grasp these except in
day dreams and we yearn to produce ...
… perceived) morphemes, which are the smallest
grammatical unit of language, and partial phrases. They are isolated and offered in a way that
further separates the viewer from the signified, such as reversed, mirrored,
flipped. The separation is never
complete, though. In creating language,
we define and form boundaries around this amorphous experience of perception we
live. The human drive is to constantly
expand our comfort and define experience in symbol systems, containing as much
as possible in its umbrella of Unity. My
intent is to give you language in its partial form, at the inchoate place where
our given meaning to the drawn symbol falls between representing an abstract
concept or a concrete object. With this,
language is revealed as the slippery ground of narcissistic human vanity, as a
drive for a Unity that leaves us less able to be silent and merely touch.
What
do the mirrors whisper to? Our fear is
to see ¬ as complicated and contradictory.
We yearn to explain and give a solid meaning to our life. Our desire to see ¬ in the mirror is to be
whole, but that desire is not to be ¬.
We see other as unified, as articulate and complete, whereas we feel
ourselves as just shifting passionate perceptions. Looking in a mirror makes us Other. We become the person “over there.” And it
makes us whole, if only for a moment. That is the reason for our love of
mirrors.
…that
humans yearn, are driven, to be Other, the current work attempts to
give reference points for a relation to Place.
Place is what is directly in sensory experience, what immediately
surrounds. Place is not what we
ultimately experience. Flooded in
language, language as all, of the simulation, where virtual existence is
determined to be fundamental rather than a fabrication of our social structure
and bypasses the physical nature of existence for our abstracted …
Place,
in fact, is the only stage we exist on.
Space is
not used as a descriptor for experience in this analysis. Space is a construct of aother and codified in Œther.
Mirrors and partial language are vehicles for creating a “safe mode” to possibly glimpse Place, if only from a side glance.
Ramifications
of Other on Educational Philosophy
Biographical
Information
Scott
Henstrand was born on
In the
recession of the early ‘90s, Scott turned to teaching and received an MS in
Education in 1998 from
His
current works are a direct result of his work with his students. In observing their struggle for identity and
to make sense of symbol system manipulation, he found a need to explore his own
uneasy relationship to language and self.
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Works
Direct:
Joseph Kosuth
Bruce Naumann
Georg Baselitz
Robert Barry
Robert Smithson
Acknowledged:
Jenny Holzer
Barbara Kruger
Stephanie Brooks
Resume
Curator
Jan. 17th-
Solo
Exhibitions
Dec. 15, 2007-
Group
Exhibitions:
2007-
Featured Artist- “Artifacts of
Some Thing”- BWAC Fall Show “Narratives”
BWAC “Really Big Art Show”
New Hope Sculpture Exhibition,
BWAC Pier Show, Red Hook,
Viridian Affiliate Show, Feb. 6th-24th
, Viridian Gallery,
Studio
Juror:
Dr. Phyllis Tuchman
Works on Paper,
Stepanie
Walker, Director,
2006
Brooklyn Arts Council 40th
Anniversary
“The Areality Show”, Invitational
Show, Viridian Gallery,
BWAC Summer Show
17th National Juried
Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, Chelsea.
Juror: Robert Rosenblum, Curator,
24th Annual Juried
Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, Chelsea.
Juror: Elizabeth Sussman, Curator,
BWAC Pier Show: Tranformations
15th National Juried
Show, Art Center of Northern
BWAC Preview Show, LAND Gallery,
Dumbo
Sonaweb 4 Poetry e-zine
Making Your Mark: On Paper;
Brooklyn Arts Council
2005
BWAC Earth Show
Huntington Township, Long Island
Seasonal Parks Art Installation
Share Our Strength Taste of the
Nation Art Exhibit and Fundraiser
BWAC 25th Anniversary
Pier Show
8th Annual
Williamsburg Salon- Part 2, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
2004
9”X12” Small Works Show, The
BWAC Solo Show
Brooklyn Working Artists
Coalition (BWAC) Water Show
BWAC Pier Show 12
2003
BWAC Solo Works Show
BWAC Pier Show 11
2002
BWAC Small Works Show
BWAC Pier Show 10
Small Works on Paper, Kentler
International Drawing Space,
2001
BWAC Small Works Show
BWAC Pier Show 9
Collections:
Upon request
Organizations:
Art Editor, The Other, On-line magazine of the San
Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies
Viridian Gallery Affiliate
Œther
Time Out New York Review of Making Your Mark: On Paper
Jan. 28, 2006; BAC Press Release for Making Your Mark: On
Paper
Contact Information
E-mail address
sctthnstrnd@yahoo.com
Web address
Phone
646-327-2759
Last revised: 2/8/07