Ever sit with someone and look at the same thing but see something totally different?
When we were kids we played this game called Thinkblot. It was a game where you pulled a card with a black splotch on a white back ground. A dice is rolled and when a subject like "Animal" or "Food" came up, you had to write down as many things you could "see" in the style of a Rorschach test.
To have someone point out a giraffe eating a carrot from the top of a tree seems silly. It WAS silly and yet it was also eye opening. To see something suddenly that you didn't see just moments earlier can be inspiring. After all these years, I can still look at a coffee stain on a piece of paper and see images of landscapes and animals playing.Now comes the art of Richard Reep to Tavares, FL with his exhibit to show YOU what HE sees in everyday items around us.
The Phenomenology of Reinvention
Reuse and recycling is front and center in the art of Richard Reep, whose collection “The Phenomenology of Reinvention” is currently on display at Tavares City Hall, 201 E. Main Street, Tavares.
Reep has harvested a wide variety of materials and recombined them into stunning, thoughtful tributes to life. He gives homage to the original creators of the resources such as lumbermen, ironmongers, carpenters and writers, but his compositions, while containing hints of the original works, bring forth new meanings.
Reep says, “… these projects exploit some of the overlooked meaning of which our life-world is capable. Neither virtual, nor artificed, nor particularly finished, they represent a moment in time where discarded wood, books, and pieces of equipment are reinvented, and serve a new purposed, while still retaining their original form.”
The artwork of Richard Reep will be on display through October 18, 2012. To contact the artist - rtreep@gmail.com or 407.408.4953.
