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     Ps-Dr. Names (Naomi Clark): Daydreaming about arthysics 

    An ironic, deadpan humour runs through Ps-Dr. Names work; as a Pseudo-Doctor of Arthysics, she is concerned with human subjectivity and the acquisition of knowledge. Arthysics is based upon the theory that the phenomenon of art is equivalent to, and has the effect of, daydreaming. Ps-Dr. Names works and practices in the field of theoretical arthysics whilst her other focus is centred on physically interpreting daydreams; she interprets her daydreams in literal and systematic ways, producing artworks that are usually image based. Curiosity about influences of Postmodernism, mass-production, mass-media, time slipping through the fingers and throwaway culture upon the individual within social structures, emanate from her works; higher issues of social concern are interwoven with ponderings, images and objects that are recognisable as, perhaps seemingly banal, parts of everyday life. Arthysics is the conceptual justification for Ps-Dr. Names more frivolous, surreal daydreams, whilst at the same time, Arthysics (pseudo-science that explains and measures art in a pseudo-scientific way) is actually born out of daydreaming. Ps-Dr. Names is currently lecturing on arthysics around the country...

    Highlight for Album: Daydreams: Shoes: Photographic Series
     
    Album: Daydreams: Shoes: Photographic Series

    Urban London scenes are elevated from banality to something of beauty or interest through the use of scale and presentation within an art context. It is not only the imposition of scale or the repetitious nature of these images that implicates a surreal narrative; it is also a pair of empty black-patent court shoes, estranged and taking on a personality of their own. Names intends to raise many questions rather than giving statements or pre-emptive answers. She insists that these images relay a natural beauty that is often overlooked and can only ever be underappreciated.
    Last change: 07/27/2006
    Contains: 2 items
    Viewed: 62 times.

    Daydreams: Tony Blair Icon: Acrylic on Recycled Wood
Names has requested that the comments in the caption for this piece be left to the viewers’ interpretation.
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    Daydreams: Tony Blair Icon: Acrylic on Recycled Wood

    Names has requested that the comments in the caption for this piece be left to the viewers� interpretation. *
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    Highlight for Album: Traces of live art: Birth of a Selfless Persona
     
    Album: Traces of live art: Birth of a Selfless Persona

    It was a four hour event in which the artist placed herself within a �white cube� room bringing with her all kinds of equipment and a vaguely scripted idea of what she would do. The artist asserts that it was not a �performance� artwork but actually �live art�, as she termed it; a process of art happening in which people could �come and go as they pleased�.
    Last change: 07/27/2006
    Contains: 3 items
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    Highlight for Album: Daydreams: Trees: Photographic Series: Butchery
     
    Album: Daydreams: Trees: Photographic Series: Butchery

    The subject of the images could be seen to be analogous with the removal of nature�s intrusion upon cramped metropolitan life; the trees seem to have been savaged, their beauty stripped away with the cutting off of their luscious, healthy, green leaves. The images have an autonomous aesthetic value and yet the way that they were collected is also an important consideration when regarding the series as a conceptual whole. Influences of contemporary technology and mass-media are alluded to by pixilation and exaggerated, saturated colours. The images were inspired and born out of an impulsive urge that has been systematically documented. The artist describes the camera work she used in this documentation as amateur even throwaway; photos taken with a mobile phone camera. However, each image has been subjected to a specialized process, both technologically and theoretically.
    Last change: 07/27/2006
    Contains: 4 items
    Viewed: 59 times.

    Highlight for Album: Daydreams: Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein (and William Waterhouse): Photographic Series
     
    Album: Daydreams: Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein (and William Waterhouse): Photographic Series

    Presented on a scale that equals the overbearing size of a Roy Lichtenstein painting, the images themselves are intentionally grainy and pixilated. The artist produced them by collaging text with low ressolution prints, of William Waterhouse�s beautiful paintings found on the internet, and magazine cuttings and then enlarging them from low resolution scans. This has the effect of giving the amusing images the foreboding presence that their dark humour suggests. Another daydream and another work in which Names refers to Postmodernism, mass-production, mass-media, throwaway culture, human subjectivity and time slipping through the fingers.
    Last change: 07/27/2006
    Contains: 3 items
    Viewed: 49 times.

    Highlight for Album: Daydreams: Witness: Photographic Series
     
    Album: Daydreams: Witness: Photographic Series

    It is not clear who the title �Witness� refers to, is it the artist, the viewer or some other character within a narrative pertained to by the works themselves? Names is preoccupied with what she sees as the line between banal and sublime. Perhaps this is yet another reflection upon the reasons behind her fascination with 'the phenomenon of daydreaming' and arthysics.
    Last change: 07/27/2006
    Contains: 6 items
    Viewed: 37 times.

    Highlight for Album: Daydreams: Shoes: Video: Stills
     
    Album: Daydreams: Shoes: Video: Stills

    The video work itself is something that needs to be seen to be understood; the feel of the work cannot be captured by a few words. The theme is of a very similar nature to that of Shoes: Photographic series, but the added element of time within this particular rendition is transformative.
    Last change: 07/30/2006
    Contains: 4 items
    Viewed: 40 times.

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