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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 © Donald Daedalus, Micah, 2007 If I Were Beautiful and Symmetrical, Too series Digital print mounted on masonite, 23x 37  © Donald Daedalus, Maya, 2007 If I Were Beautiful and Symmetrical, Too series Digital print mounted on masonite, 23x 37  © Donald Daedalus, Anna, 2007 If I Were Beautiful and Symmetrical, Too series Digital print mounted on masonite, 23x 37 |
Donald Daedalus Born: 1983, Tacoma, WA Resides: Queens, NY Heritage: Vietnamese American Selected Exhibitions: En Foco at El Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Angle Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007 Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, WA 2007 Golden Art Gallery, Goldendale, WA 2007 Puente de Aragon, Valencia, Spain 2006 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2005 Parnassus Art Gallery & Cafe, Seattle, WA 2004 Education: BA, University of Washington, 2005 Awards: En Foco's New Works Photography Awards #11 (2007-08) Publications: Nueva Luz, volume 12#3 (En Foco: Bronx, NY 2008) "My work is a meditation or contemplation on an idea. Today, arguably more than ever, life’s pace frequently allows only a moment’s of concentration. We see this not only in television, but in conversations, in newspapers, in the cell phone culture that plans meetings, locations, and diversions 5 minutes prior to commencement. Information no longer requires research or weeks of waiting for letter to return from a correspondent; today’s immediacy has borne the death of the endurance required to gather and/or exchange information. In working I sustain a focus on an idea until the works completion. I explore ideas with visual tools. Meditation on an idea lends itself to working within series. Many ideas are caught only within one minute sketches; some ultimately leading to more time intense works. Visual means allows my meditation to be ‘doing’ as much as ‘intending to do.’ I am a practitioner because many of the best ideas come while doing. I learn by going where I have to go (Theordore Roethke). The meditations of the last three years have been focused on cultural appropriation and its repercussions such as authenticity and authorship. From these meditations, I have made connections between cultural authenticities, intellectual property rights, what I call ‘invasive ethics.’ All of these components have relevance inside and outside the art world. My art is therefore contemporary by effect, reacting to life’s contemporary pace, and by cause in that it applies to contemporary life. The process of creating art is a meditation to create art for meditation." |
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