Creating Effect


By Autumn Hays

In making art I attempt to compose an experience that shows the viewer psychological distress corporally. It is through this that one can perceive the content, not just observe it. The reaction created by the viewer is what I am constructing. My art is not there to reflect myself, even if that is how it's made. It is there to propagate the effect formed by the viewer. My art is not created by the objects and performances I make, but rather it is formed in the moment it reaches the viewer. That reaction is where my artwork exists, never in the piece itself.

          Each one of us sees the world differently depending on our experiences. I wish to give my viewers a new experience. A single moment changes our view of the world. Therefore, no two views are the same. However, we fear that which is different. This contains the basis of my content, societal differences and the rush to destroy those differences. It is in that very rush that we cause the real deficit to ourselves. My work is based on humanity's never ending quest to fix the wrong, when it is that very act of trying to fix that creates what we are trying to prevent.