Hold the Emperor Accountable

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oil linen 36" x 36"

 

 'Hold the Emperor Accountable' deals a bit with this theme: the notion of exiting our everyday world and entering a continuum of non-separation from the things around us, being those things and those things being us. In this image Truman Marquez allows us entry into a vision that signals the emergence of a new world. This world has internal worlds within it obvious for all to see, yet these internal folds in time and space are co-existent and self-contradictory, simultaneously. Marquez implies not only that the spatial body is dynamic and that this dynamic is the very condition which allows the world to become manifest in and through consciousness. In a broad sense Marquez depicts a determinate world where objects can begin to co-exist simultaneously. The artist teases out another riddle from this presupposition. He seems to be questioning the very condition of dynamic spatiality and effect on the body. Here I use the body in both its narrowest and its widest sense; body of being, human body, body of mind, space, thought, time etc. Is the body in control of its own physical destiny (or determination)? And if so how are we to picture the indeterminate horizons (both internal and external in the sense of physiological and in terms of outside stimuli) which signal to becoming manifest to us that the world is emerging. On another level Marquez’s Hold the Emperor Accountable work seems to suggest that there is a supra-mundane world that not only co-exists with the world of empiricism and intellectualisms but also is bound within the groundedness of reality.

D.F. Coleman Art Critic