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Andy Holtin October 8 through November 16 STATEMENT Somehow, whenever we look at things and hear things and remember things, we find a way to make sense of it, to keep track of it, to organize, categorize, connect, anticipate, extrapolate and explain the experience. Through attention and the sliding interval of working memory we are able to keep track of ourselves; we create a platform and framework for understanding that is in itself maybe not as important as the act of its creation. Though this platform may be altered, updated, or undermined altogether, we cannot abandon its pursuit. The specific act or moment of keeping track is elusive, part of the ever-present but invisible system we create. What is most intriguing to me is that the acts of walking down a hallway, stacking books, or drawing are as much dependent on this system of understanding as are all of our philosophy, language, theology, or sociology. The furtive relationship between these two manifestations of this system, the inward and the outward, is my fuel for investigating the cartography of our perception and experience. I have sought this connection by making invisible relationships visible, giving transient things record and permanence, and by amplifying the quiet and easily eclipsed. Whether I am discovering or illustrating, uncovering or inventing, the result is not new information or experiences but an awareness or translation of old ones. Andy Holtin
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