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Space Title

0. well,

Within the World Titled well,
Credited to Sammie Veeler
Opening date December 20th, 2021
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Main image for 0. well,

Statement:

well,

A midsentence opened but never shut.

My entire visual practice has evolved in concert with my investigations of virtual space. Virtual space forms a bridge between the archive of sounds which my dead husband created or gathered, and the expanding manifold of multisensory language spun off from my process of grief and transformation.

To hear what he heard and through the act of listening be there with him.

These are perpetually incomplete and evolving spaces– my virtual sites of private reflection and digital nostalgia where I return to visit myself and leave new offerings, to share my new self with my beloved friends and coconspirators.

Every shape in this room is a link to a space in this world. Click to enter.

Artworks in this space:

Artwork title

3 Dust Cycles

gyre

The seven objects in this gallery, including the gallery itself, form the original concept of this world. They collapse my first experiments with 3D modeling, image making, and self portraits from March through November of 2021 with sound installations recomposed from the last 5 years of my private sound practice.

this

heart shaped mesh

the projected observer

blues and greens

tinted lenses

sensible galleries

well, A midsentence opened but never shut. Began in March of 2021 these are containers for 3D sculptures, images, videos, and sound. Many of the architectures and art works grew together. Forms overflowing each other as I slosh into more embodied existence and re-inscribe artifacts from deeper in my past which sat in stasis until there was something I could use them for. To hear what he heard and through the act of listening be there with him. These are perpetually incomplete and evolving spaces– my virtual sites of private reflection and digital nostalgia where I return to visit myself and leave new offerings, to share my new self with my beloved friends and coconspirators. Every shape in this room is a link to a space in this world. Click to enter. - December 20th, 2021

tv room

brutalist desert

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More Flags

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This landscape and many other shapes in this space are free to download directly from my shape garden.

exclamation • used to express a range of emotions including surprise, anger, resignation, or relief • used when pausing to consider one's next words • used to express agreement or acceptance, often in a qualified or slightly reluctant way • used to introduce the resumption of a narrative or a change of subject. • used to mark the end of a conversation or activity • used to indicate that one is waiting for an answer or explanation from someone

well noun 1 a shaft sunk into the ground to obtain water, oil, or gas. • archaic a water spring or fountain. • short for inkwell. • (Wells) (in place names) a place where there are mineral springs • a depression made to hold liquid 2 a plentiful source or supply 3 an enclosed space in the middle of a building, giving room for stairs or an elevator, or to allow light or ventilation. • British the place in a court of law where the clerks and ushers sit. 4 Physics a region of minimum potential: a gravity well. verb [no object, with adverbial] (of a liquid) rise to the surface and spill or be about to spill: tears were beginning to well in her eyes. • (of an emotion) arise and become more intense ORIGIN Old English wella, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wel and German Welle ‘a wave’.

a container for un-named sensation

"well," begins mid sentence and never ends. It is a description of phenomena, a generative process for producing new artifacts, and a strategy for composting archival ones.

A gravity well is the pull of gravity that a large body in space exerts. An overpowering sensation of early transition was the weight of my consciousness increasing on the spacetime continuum. An internal swelling and an awareness of transformed surroundings.

I use multimedia artifacts as portals between incarnations of myself. The archival scraps from my dead husband's 2012 Macbook Pro, Theseus. I compost his field recordings and data-moshing in an expanding manifold of multisensory language.

“The ‘autobiographical example,’ says Saidiya Hartman, ‘is not a personal story that folds onto itself; it’s not about navel gazing, it’s really about trying to look at historical and social process and one’s own formation as a window onto social and historical processes, as an example of them’ (Saunders 2008b, 7). Like Hartman I include the personal here, ‘to tell a story capable of engaging and countering the violence of abstraction’ (Hartman 2008, 7).” Christina Sharpe In The Wake

an opening, closing, pause, resumption, and implicit expectation

These artifacts are sites of emotional resonance– bells that ring across time.

investigations of my own physiological, emotional, and interpersonal transformations amid collective movements of people and ideas

Artwork title

fc10

Artist name field collage
Artwork Description:

Now you can see I'm trying to tell a story like I did on Provincial Skinflint 14, but not backwards this time. Wanting to be forwards very badly. Forwards can be backwards to some people.

Skinflint says I love you in Jim Jones's voice, a love lying through its teeth. Here I want to say I love you in the way that makes no demands.

Ben struggles with the Zippo, blames the wind. Swish, flick, I am smoking. The scene changes. We are still in Kenosha. Lucas is in Berlin, Andrew is in Tokyo. We're on our way to Milwaukee.

Paulstretch isn't a game anymore, this is serious. Was that music?

fc10
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museum 4

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Darkness 2-6 & 2-7

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Darkness 2-6 & 2-7

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On view IRL on the huge screen at Vellum LA from 3/24/ - 4/10 as part of Artists Who Code, a group show featuring 30 female generative artists.

On view IRL on the huge screen at Vellum LA from 3/24/ - 4/10 as part of Artists Who Code, a group show featuring 30 female generative artists.

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Returning to the text

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Delivered for the third performance of A Time Capsule Or A Grave at NFT Tuesday on 1/17/2023

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This is a map.

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Delivered for the third performance of A Time Capsule Or A Grave at NFT Tuesday on 1/17/2023