MCE Beyond Ground Zero

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“MCE Beyond Ground Zero” takes up “MCE Day And Night”—a modification of an Escher work—and uses it within the context of an intellectual examination of the notion of absolute originality in art: the Ground Zero Illusion (rooted in a secularized understanding of ‘Creatio Ex Nihilo’).

On the surface, the massive stone wall appears to dominate the image—a barrier standing between the view of absolute originality (Ground Zero being an untenable position, not just by current standards of knowledge and understanding) and the perspective of appropriation art (artists create neither matter nor ideas from nothing; they transform what already exists). Projected side by side on the wall are a modification of Escher’s “Day and Night” and Escher’s work itself—”original and forgery (??)” The wall—though an illusion, yet still present in many (economically minded) heads—shows breakthroughs, offering a glimpse into the real, appropriative world of creation. Beyond the wall, visible through these openings, is fragments (in vivid colors) of another modification of “MCE Day And Night”—”Arslohgo Meets M. C. Escher.”

“MCE Beyond Ground Zero” is part of the project “Approaches To MCE.”