richard ford on unsystematic opposition

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Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land (2006), excerpt of excerpt from Google books (the narrator is describing his son Paul; "Ann" is the narrator's ex-wife and Paul's mother):

[...] It was the time when Ann (for good reason) thought Paul might have Asperger's and was forcing me, at great expense, to drive him down to Hopkins to be neurologically evaluated. He was evaluated and didn't have Asperger's or anything else. The Hopkins doctor said Paul was "unsystematically oppositional" by nature and probably would be all his life, that there was nothing wrong with that, nor anything I could do or should want to since plenty of interesting, self-directed, even famous people were also that. He named Winston Churchill, Bing Crosby, Gertrude Stein and Thomas Carlyle, which seemed a grouping that didn't bode well. [...]

"H.M.M.M. 1"

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"H.M.M.M. 1" [5.5 MB .mp3]

Collaboration with Travis Hallenbeck. His music setup includes a midi step sequencer, midi mixer, sound module (see YouTube demo), and a vocal synthesizer that responds unpredictably to audio from the above gear.

I recorded some of his live-in-the-studio performance and made this track using editing software, effects software and virtual instruments. It is still a rough draft--I plan to make a few more tunes and then master them a little better.

DIY Kelley Walker Spin

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Need some better rhetoric for my work so went looking for it online. Here's Saatchi Gallery on Kelley Walker:

Using the famous Maui air crash photo which appeared on the cover of Benetton’s magazine Colours in 1995, Kelley Walker explores the currency of media images as a platform where abjection and desire become indistinguishable. Obscuring the picture with a mesh of candy-coloured dots, Walker visualises the clothing company’s 'united colours' slogan, and makes reference to the pixelised format of digital media. Maui is both appealing and appalling: exposing the malleable nature of the meaning of images, Walker questions a world order where human value is calibrated equally by fashion and trauma.

Here's how I could adapt that for an artist's statement:

Using an obscure image of some "wall bangles" captured from the internet, Tom Moody explores the currency of amateur media images as a platform where abjection trumps desire. Crudely filling in the bangles with candy-coloured spheres using the ordinary Microsoft Paint program that ships with Windows, Moody visualises a kind of endless hippie crash pad bending time and space, as filtered through the unhip lowest common denominator of digital media. Enantiomorphic Amulet Chamber is more appalling than appealing: exposing the malleable nature of the meaning of images, Moody questions a world order where human value is calibrated more by trauma than fashion.