Benjamin Gardner
drawing, painting, and installation Photographs
There is an interesting ambiguity of space and time in our conscious lives. Our memories and anticipations are consistently being realized while we experience the present. Concurrently, the media and culture that we surround ourselves with is often linked to a different time and place than that which we experience. My main interest in art and visual research is working with these implications of a non-linear and multi-faceted sense of time and an uncertainty of our complex sense of space.

These ideas have recently manifested in an exploration of superstitions, divination, and the concept of the eternal return. Not only do they provide interesting imagery and text as a basis for subject matter, they also contain a certain amount of mystery, portent, and wonder that I hope to embody in my work—materially, visually, and psychologically.