initial urges

I first began the Time Travel Process [TT(P)] project in the summer of 2008. I was living in St. Louis, MO, where I had been cavorting on the banks of the Mississippi for a number of years. But I was preparing to move to Los Angeles in the Fall of that year, and as I divested myself of belongings both cherished and inconsequential, my mind was filling up with plans for the future.

Red Notebook [RN], pages 1 and 2:

"for exhibition in Los Angeles...

'INSTANT INSTINCT' or 'INSTANT QUALIFIER'
or 'INSTINCT QUALIFIER' or
'INSTINCTUAL QUALIFIER'

Penetralia Doubloon?

"Whereas the 2007 exhibitions 'Relics, Rimjobs, Robbery, Resonance...' and 'DREAM WARFARE 3' tackled the concept of the 'Double Opening' spacially: by staging two seperate shows simultaneously in two galleries across the street from one another, I now propose to investigate this simultaneity of exhibitions in a more directly TEMPORAL fashion. I propose to first install one complete exhibition of objects and/or images in the alloted space, then photograph it robustly. I will then deinstall it and replace it with a second body of work, which will be partially comprised of paintings or drawings, in fairly large format, based on the documentary photographs of the first set of artworks.

"How will the development of the first exhibition be marked by my foreknowledge of its hidden existence? Will I choose objects and materials with a regard for their photogenic possibilities? Will I arrange them with an eye toward their intended mediation?

"The intended consumption of the first set of artworks is not through live interaction by gallery goers but rather through the viewing of interpretive "records" of the pieces, twice removed from the original objects (object > photo > painting). Yet I want the installation to remain complete in itself, though very few will actually experience it in this form. Simply arranging things as if for still life is not at all what I wish to do. I want the paintings to function as windows into the past, albeit panes that filter the light in such a way that the views are tinted- distorted and 'drastically yet subliminally altered'"