Interview: Tim Whiten

Artist: Tim Whiten
Exhibit Name: coming PASSAGE going
Gallery: Olga Korper Gallery
Dates: January 29 – February 26, 2011
Interviewed by: Lori Starr
Aired on ArtSync: February 4, 2011

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When you work with your hands, the tools that you actually extend beyond your hands allow you to connect.

Left and below: cover and excerpt from ABC of the Steel Square and Its Uses, the book gifted to Whiten by his father.

Right: Whiten’s T After Tom (Pickaxe)

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The rocking motion is very much the same as saying a mantra; the repetition of a mantra is nothing more than a rocking of one’s energies, in order to transform oneself.

Left and below: cover and excerpt from Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner.

Right: Whiten’s Lucky, Lucky, Lucky

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[The tricycle is] a circle within a circle and… provides us an understanding of a kind of cosmic structure. […] To provide those principles in glass is to form and spiritualize the principles in an object so we can reference it.

Left and below: Cover and excerpt from The Book of Ezekiel.

Right: Whiten’s After Ethan’s Wheels

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-H.W.

Whiten’s images, all from the current exhibit coming PASSAGE going, courtesy www.olgakorpergallery.com. Book images and excerpts courtesy books.google.com, amazon,ca, openlibrary.org.