{"id":42134,"date":"2018-12-30T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T02:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=42134"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T02:16:31","slug":"brian-christensens-sublime-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/brian-christensens-sublime-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Christensen’s Sublime 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BYU students and faculty in the Salt Flats.<\/p><\/div>\n

Brigham Young University art professor Brian Christensen says the \u201cmost seminal experience of epiphany in 2018\u201d happed during the second season of BYU\u2019s Art Advanced Summer Intensive program, which he organized with colleague Collin Bradford. During the program students visited land art sites and engaged the landscape with art by making work there, bringing them back and “examining off-limits places as closely as possible.”<\/p>\n

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Brian Christensen’s “Red Shadow.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Christensen made several of his own site specific \/ environmental installations along with the students, sparking new ideas that have \u201cinfluenced my art practice in many unexpected ways since.\u201d More revelatory, however, may have been the group dynamic of the experience, so different from his usual solitary pilgrimages to open spaces. \u201cThe amount of time that we spent in the desert as a cohesive group accumulated and condensed in me a sense of the sublime. Not the surface of sublime as a pleasurable experience but more like this 16th<\/sup> century origin definition:<\/p>\n

Late 16th century (in the sense \u2018dignified, aloof\u2019): from Latin\u00a0sublimis<\/em>, from\u00a0sub-<\/em>\u00a0\u2018up to\u2019 + a second element perhaps related to\u00a0limen<\/em>\u00a0\u2018threshold,\u2019\u00a0limus<\/em>\u00a0\u2018oblique.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe desert can be a liminal space,\u201d he says. \u201cA doorway to something larger than yourself, larger than our species. The sublime can be the perception of something incomprehensible, which a person can only submit to rather than dominate. We cannot destroy the desert. We can only intensify it and make it less habitable to our purposes. This is true of the earth as a whole, but the desert will always win, and life will always loose if life does not conform to that impervious reality. It is possible to be at peace in 118\u00b0 f if you accept it and adapt to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

View more of the artist’s work at brian-christensen.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Best Of (2018) curated by Emily Larsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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