Word: huebler
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...NAVAHO INDIANS use the same word for both grey and brown. The Hopi in their thoughts about events include both space and time; neither is found alone in their world view. Douglas Huebler combines a concept of art with out culture's thoughts about events; neither is found alone in his aesthetic view...
...work is concerned with determining the form of art when the role traditionally played by visual experience is mitigated or eliminated." Huebler explains. Art expands consciousness by transposing natural phenomena from everyday experience into mental constructions. He is concerned with thinking about the event rather than the objectness of the situation. Therefore, his works document events rather than recreate them. He picks a situation and applies an arbitrary structure to it--using photographs, maps, and verbal statements. By applying such structures to events--such as mapping the route of an empty package sent to six different U.S. towns--he gives...