Organic Matter
May 2023 - April 2024
Organic Matter operates on a basis of understanding that the strength in connection resides in the fact that it is ultimately temporary. The idea is that to honor the truth of fleeting moments, we must understand the power that is held in each moment’s ephemerality - an ephemerality granted by nature’s inherent basics of life. To take that moment and make a life (in a personal sense) out of it is something that moves beyond the allowances of nature and becomes entirely human. The act of experiencing moments one at a time, creating memories of them, and revisiting those memories is a process that imbues our human, nature-granted right to life with a specifically human experience. Nature and its subsequent notions of death, birth, physicality, and form combine with the mankind-ification of pleasure through electronic music, light, community, and freedom in this work. Together they create a landscape of humanity that understands universal emotion, and it’s within that landscape that I have chosen to make a home for my memories. 
displayed in the gallery, the work revolves around a central tendril titled 'overgrowth' that has "grown" from the floor, Meant to mirror the central theme of landscapes manifesting themselves out of gutoskey's memories. the sculpture represents the understanding that even in the present gallery space, the process of time passing and nature overtaking a memory has already begun. The central formation has begun to grow and harden, and one day the exhibition will exist only in a landscaped memory, just as the images do. as the viewer circumambulates the space, two lights dance inside the tenril as mirrors flash reflections of LIGHT AND GUTOSKEY'S PIECES BACK TO THE VIEWER. THE EXHIBITION WAS DESIGNED TO KEEP BOTH THE VIEWER'S EYES AND BODY MOVING AROUND THE SPACE, COMBINING CYCLE AND RHYTHM TO MIMIC UNITY FOUND ON THE DANCE FLOOR. 
Organic Matter ALSO EXISTS IN THE FORM OF A BOOKLET FIT FOR A JEWEL CD CASE, INSPIRED BY THE ROLE THAT MUSIC AND COMMUNITY PLAYED IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING THE WORK. GUTOSKEY FOUND THE ADDITIONAL PERSONAL DETAILS PROVIDED BY MUSICIANS IN THEIR CD INSERTS TO BE AN IMPORTANT ACT OF SENTIMENTALISM NOT FAR FROM WHAT HE WAS SEEKING TO EXPLORE HIMSELF. THE BOOKLETS PROVIDE A WRITTEN, PULSATING FORM OF THE THOUGHT THAT WENT INTO THE CREATION OF THE VISUAL WORK. THEY EXISTED AS AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY IN THE GALLERY, INVITING EACH VISITOR TO TAKE ONE WITH THEM AS A PERSONAL SOUVENIR.
