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BASICALLY,
EVERYTHING IS NOTHING
AND NOTHINGNESS CONTAINS EVERYTHING
BUT IF YOU GO INTO THIS OBLIVION STATE
YOURE A SELF CENTERED PRICK

(New work by Diego Mireles and Bethany Price)

Like a boiling kettle of acid simultaneously disintegrating and bubbling over, the limitations of the studio space cultivate a means for both meditative action and spastic articulation. In containment, practices run together, drunkenly hit heads, and sit quietly side by side in culmination to artifacts of the zone. Diego Mireles Duran is slowwwly traveling through the lines of communication with self and ‘self’ on flying rollerblades. Bethany Price is stuck between the body as a mute cradle and the external great abandon. One aims to create a series of depictions with metaphysical sarcasm and psychsploitation; the other deciphers the code of psychosomatic experience within color theory and myth of memory. Both artists seek grounding and connectivity through mutated mysticism within their oozing, layered sphere. Notes of reality have been collectively gathered as Mireles and Price examine the internal call/response dialog of play and shared space.

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-"<blockquote>""The miniature, then, is an attempt to reproduce the universe in graspable form. It represents a desire to possess the world more completely, to banish the unknown and the unseen. We are teased out of the world of terror and death, and under the enchantment of the miniature we are invited to become God.”</blockquote>
+<poem>BASICALLY,
-<cite>– The Fascination of the Miniature, Steven Millhauser, 1983</cite>
+EVERYTHING IS NOTHING
-</blockquote>
+AND NOTHINGNESS CONTAINS EVERYTHING
+BUT IF YOU GO INTO THIS OBLIVION STATE
+YOURE A SELF CENTERED PRICK</poem>
-❧
+(New work by Diego Mireles and Bethany Price)
-Much has been made of the laborious work of the miniaturist. The impossibly small has long been a fixture in the realm of the fantastic; recall the island empire of the Lilliputians, Alice’s impassably tiny doorway, the royal dollhouses of each monarchic playroom. In the more menial aspects of the day-to-day, delight and surprise is expressed too for these moments of delicacy and virtuosity. We reserve a special kind of wonder for instances of deepening intricacy and for the illuminating quality of the obsessive (or the obsessed) that is revealed by closer inspection, or under glass.
+Like a boiling kettle of acid simultaneously disintegrating and bubbling over, the limitations of the studio space cultivate a means for both meditative action and spastic articulation. In containment, practices run together, drunkenly hit heads, and sit quietly side by side in culmination to artifacts of the zone. Diego Mireles Duran is slowwwly traveling through the lines of communication with self and ‘self’ on flying rollerblades. Bethany Price is stuck between the body as a mute cradle and the external great abandon. One aims to create a series of depictions with metaphysical sarcasm and psychsploitation; the other deciphers the code of psychosomatic experience within color theory and myth of memory. Both artists seek grounding and connectivity through mutated mysticism within their oozing, layered sphere. Notes of reality have been collectively gathered as Mireles and Price examine the internal call/response dialog of play and shared space.
-Why does this practice remain so enchanting in a time when our tools allow an ever-progressing level of dexterity? What does the process of reduction look like when we are increasingly engaged in digital spaces where physical size is growing less relevant? What carries over in the translation of scale, from a world-of-us to a world-of-that? How to best capture the clarity of a chair, a woodpecker, the dust of many years, when those things are removed from us bodily? Why the small? Minutiae is considering these questions, and others."