Kristy Perez - The Possibility Of The Impossible.

I always find reading interviews with artist to be really enlightening, giving me a different view on there work, than I had before and also adding a little to my collection of thoughts on art.
I usually get to know an artist and then seek out interviews with them, this way I can form my opinion and feeling towards there work without first “tainting” it with what ever it was that they invested in it.

Its a little like preferring to read the book before you see the movie.

Sometimes it happens the other way round, though.
I read an interview with Kristy Perez on Emvergeoning, and was quite taken with both the images of her work that I saw and with her process. I recommend reading the interview and remembering the name.

Fight

This is what she says about this piece:

EMV: The installation show you did at the Friedrich Building in San Antonio last year had some really powerful sculptures. One in particular seems to be this anti-gravity crutch spotlighted in the middle of a vacuous, industrial warehouse. Why did you choose the Friedrich Building and what was this crutch conveying?

KP: Thank you. Well, actually the installation at the Freidrich Building was in fact the work I created with my grant from the Artist Foundation. Emily Morrison, (who by the way worked her ass off for this show…she was with me every step) was at the time (I’m not sure if she still is) working with the foundation and she and I would basically drive around the city and look for available space. One day she told me that Eugene Simor of Alamo Beer Company had some space available. We went and looked and that was all I needed. Big, empty, dripping, drafty, and concrete!..what more could I ask for?
Rolling off the romantic lead of the space I made a series of sculptures based on the theme of Love. The sculpture you are talking about in particular is titled: FIGHT!
It is a freestanding wooden crutch on a caster that sits directly onto hardware embedded in the ground. It is quite striking when you are standing next to it. It seems as if it could take off right toward you at any minute. I guess that’s what the piece is really about. The possibility of the impossible. I love toying with the idea of suspension and pull because those things talk about desire and too often we let our ideas die out of the expectation that there is nothing beyond this absurd realm. I understand the time we are living in right now post, post, post, plural, plural, plural but fuck assimilation. I’m not interested in homogeneity. I’m not going to stop searching for something absolutely different. If I did that, the crutch would never have had a wheel to stand on. This piece means a lot to me. It’s about salvation.