Revealing His Story:
How Zachar Gets Got

REVEALING HIS STORY:

How Zachar Gets Got

This smartphone-friendly artwork is first and foremost intended as an an accompaniment artwork to the one published in the 49th Edition of the Hand in that it is part of an artwork that belongs to the "SCAN ME: Method as Metaphor" series where static artworks are enriched and enlived by being dynamically connected (through mediation of a black mirror) to a multimedia realization of that artwork.

 

It is intimately connected to the published QR-Code artwork "GETTING GOT for Printed Art: Ines Monguio Got Got". So it "reveals" more clearly what I was intending to do with that first artwork, as the camera pans gradually, the artist is revealed situated between nature and culture, usurped into the art. Just as a close up of the moon pans back to reveal Ines Monguio pointing at her print, the prophet of an apocalyptic cult is revealed as part of an artwork.

 

I clearly see the artist as a transitional figure interfacing standing between frames, filling in the space that is left unexplained by words.

However, both pieces of multimedia art go on revealing more and more as the camera continues to fade ever outwards and the larger context in which the art was created is revealed. Each work is surrounded by the cosmos, the sea. The stars. The moon.

These artworks are in constant motion. Furthermore, they spin round and round eternally. The story of Terenzio Ekeleiburg and his apocalyptic cult which results in the end of universe, is naturally where my artwork starts.

The title is actually more "revealing" than you may think. Of the many narratives busy in the two minutes that this film lasts, the complex story of an artwork is actually revealed, frame by frame, from conception as an idea and then a film, and from there to a screenshot, the addition of assets and the gradual transformation into a two-plate "gotograph" or print.

However, it doesn't only tell the story of its realization as a physical artwork, and the methods I invented to make it - but also the medium I used to distribute it as postal art... and then there's the apocalyptic tale of the end of the universe brought about by man's hubris which connects this artwork to other projects that form a network of artistic ideas buzzing around in my brain. Connecting and forming ideas in an endless cycle ever upwards...

 

This is the smartphone friendly version created as a GIF or as a repeating film for IMGUR, Instagram or YouTube. It is intended to repeat eternally, and in this case it ends where it starts (with the end of the world, naturally).

The name of the print/gotograph is "Who Me? Luna Sea!/Lunacy". You can see me actually performing the movement of shock at being falsely accused of something. It's like I'm saying: "don't shoot the messenger". The artist is only the oracle - not the cause for the problem being commented on. Terenzio Ekeleiburg, a cosmic trickster who recurs throughout history, is the antagonist of my story. I can't help feeling that this is how sometimes I am viewed. And it is true that I am tricking and decieving you by creating images that appear funny that do communicate genuinely disturbing truths about reality.

So you'll have to agree: this artwork so very completely embodies "his (my) story".