Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / FEBRUARY 2020
Kit S Carlton
USA
www.kitscarlton.com
About
Ostensibly, Kit Carlton’s path to a studio practice
appears divergent & sidewinding: she holds a dual BA in
Anthropology/English from TXST, briefly studied nonhuman
primates at Texas Biomed and has held various positions
across industries. However, in 2016 she walked the Camino
de Santiago to discover her raison d’être and upon return
earnestly pursued the call to Art. She has since steadily
exhibited her work locally & nationally. Most recently on a
syndicated t.v program & through a collaboration with the
nationally recognized nonprofit, NWNoggin.
Themes naturally blended in her work include myth,
symbolism, space (outer/inner/multidimensional), epigenetics
& perception.
As a New/Mixed Media artist, her process starts by employing
traditional methods and once a satisfactory result emerges,
the work is transferred into the digital realm for further
exploration. Often this process reciprocates whereby results
yielding from digital processing are incorporated back into
the original/analog work. Consequently, Carlton considers
her work a bridge between these two mediums/realms—
each one influencing the varying fields of perception created
by its own particular time, space & place.
She also regards each piece as its own authentic,
metaphysical inquiry into the connection between the
physical & immaterial. Carlton believes that once a viewer
internalizes an emotional response to the work in another
specific time, space & place the work then becomes by sheer
experience a further preservation and transmutation of the
work—perhaps this is because of her deep-seated belief that
Art is the study of Spirit and it is Spirit that evolves us.
Eigenzeit, own time
The chaos of modern day life leaves very little time or space
to retreat into silence. The incessant bombardment of noise
encroaches into every facet of life forcing us to live in an
acute stress soup markedly designed by the technocratic.
Being gifted with time and space to reacquaint myself with
silence, being and locating the loci of the here and now invited
a whole new angle from which to investigate my practice,
rediscover the Self behind the self and reclaim my eigenzeit.
To ease myself into the residency, I began by revisiting
Agnes Martin’s ‘Writings’. A large part of Martin’s philosophy
surrounding her practice was the dogged stripping back our
socio-cultural programing to pure presence and creating
from this place. I used her Writings to create cut-up poems
to more easily access my subconscious and followed the
symbols, inklings, nudgings. This practice invariably led me
to study the concepts of light, spacetime,
??elsewhere??, c, and special relativity. It is through light we
receive spatial and temporal information. At c the present
condenses all of the past and all of the future so that all
of time exists in one still moment of the here and now. The
works depicted are the genesis of a new understanding and
fascination with eigenzeit.