Exploring the experiential, poetic, unseen and simple, The Unseen Island is an exhibition about how the poetic can choose its time and place to reveal itself. The show features three Salt Spring artists: Eli Horn, James K-M, and Denise Okan and is curated by Juan Carlos Rodriguez Valdés. The Unseen Island, ArtSpring Gallery, Art Spring Island, BC, September 5-21, 2025. The […]
James K-M’s work, Ceremony of Privacy, was in the first Provocation: Investigating Technology exhibition,July 6th – August 10th, 2024, on Salt Spring Island, BC ,Canada Artist Statement This work is called Ceremony of Privacy in which I am retrieving the early days of print media about digital culture, when there was initially an artistic innocence and an
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Artist Statement The idea is to create a tight geometric abstraction that incorporates its own ruin, or wound, or window-through. I always proceed from an intuitive, indirect impulse. Whether making sculptures or painting on skulls, plywood, or archaeological-like objects, my purpose is to artistically juxtapose the ancient and contemporary cross-culturally, to retain the sculptural and