FAX

The FAX show brings up the question of dynamic value and precedence of quality in art. A fantastic painting can be wrung through a fax machine, drained of its primary characteristics and initial value and leave behind a shadow of its former self. However, based on a series of judgements based on personal perceptions, the piece can regain some sort of value and instead become a unique piece, instead of a copy of a piece. The paper that comes out the side is agreeably worthless. But depending on what it is a copy of, what it has become, who made it and so on, the piece can overcome its obvious lack of actual material quality and become something more.
For my faxes, I've chosen to transmit an old design project based on a nightmare to see how the parts are transformed and what it creates in the end. On each of the pages/rooms of this nightmare i've included instructions, whether or not they will come out I have no idea. What this symbolizes is what you plan and prepare for may not be the result you expected. Another fax I included was a copy of a Family Circus cartoon, with an elephant taking a dump on one of the characters. There is immature scribbling scrawled over the page, something akin to bathroom wall fodder. Personally, I just always hated that comic strip, it's just so incredibly corny and lame, it somehow represents "The Man" in a wholesome white bread way. It's a relic of archaic values itself, so I'm interested to see what comes out the other end, no pun intended. Another fax I included is a printer test page I had laying around, and I wrote the phrase "lead but follow", it just seemed like something deeper, or something that you would fill in the rest. Leadership and followship are values themselves, however they may be eroded when ran thru nostalgic equipment.