Sounds Like Home

Morph With Geography: This premise then makes their output more palpably real and time-tested. All these aspects that encircle and define a home would be perceived germinating in different permutations in their varied art expressions. It’ll be dictated by constant change of geography and dialect under the burden of painstaking adjustments and creative surprises. As far as one would survey the development of imagery of their paintings one can discern the shape-shifting characters and locations in their theme of domesticity. Relishing images of a secure abode, they sometimes inject this device to unsettle a seeming cushion of comfort on the home front. There’s this strange suspense of surrealism pervading in their canvases while an uncanny device of abstraction that spawn wanton fragmentation in the picture plane happens. All these takes place by the guise of their delectation in texture and detail by the flick of their hyperrealist brush. You can almost hear how their artistic vision embattled by geographic displacements sound like.

Sonic Architecture: Where do we locate sound within the Ticar- Aragon art nomenclature? Sound artist Susan Philipsz, 2010 Turner Prize awardee in London, in reference to her winning piece “Lowlands”, stated that “sound is materially invisible but very visceral and emotive. It can define a space at the same time as it triggers a memory.” In this winning piece she installed sensitive sound systems hidden between trusses of the Glasgow bridgeway and let passersby to unknowingly experience the ambient sounds bouncing off the upper structures of the bridge and river surface. This encounter triggered significant memories people may have had in that particular area. In the same token, the sound art/work of Jay and Amy signify a breaking of borders where the visual resides and breaking through into the significations of sound within the cavity of memory. Memory is now the audio-visual playground of their homestead. Connecting Philipsz’ audio experience to the visual constructs of Jay and Amy, a perceptive viewer may notice that sound art embodied here echoed the architectural allusion to their paintings as well as their personal memories as a couple. Virtually a house under the roof of aesthetic endeavor is a collection of a shared past structured as experiential vision and sound.