Mar Gauge
Mar ; mär/ verb - impair the appearance of; disfigure.
Gauge ; ɡāj/noun - an instrument or device for measuring the magnitude, amount, or contents of something, typically with a visual display of such information. 2. verb - estimate or determine the magnitude, amount, or volume of.
Mar Gauge is a meditation on objects which may or may not hold value in our implicitly impenetrable social constructs. As this history progresses from the physical mediums to one of algorithms and faith in institutional constructs, the importance of physical simple functional materials remains always in pure sight yet dismissed by the agents of attention. The install will focus on a devaluation of these percepts, with the attitude that they may perhaps be invasive on one’s personal scope of interest. Mar Gauge is the artist’s personalization as a despondent blind eye to the machine functions of history, and both a celebration and meditation of the units that may withhold, reinforce, and hold together its prepackaged beauty. These objects will deteriorate much like the minds that agree to the existence of power structures and means of life. Objects will be presented out of context, in the contexts and reinforced with other objects, alone, live on video, on fabric, and under unconventional analysis.
Constituents Source objects used in Mar Gauge were predominately mundane objects to which the natural mind validates passively on a second-to-second basis. These constituent objects include screws, nails, physical banknotes (1 USD), rope, twine, candles, wire, metal pipes, and others. A closer look at these objects can possibly alleviate mundane percepts.Screws - sharp-pointed metal pin with a raised helical thread running around it and a slotted head, usedto join things together by being rotated so that it pierces wood or other material and is held tightly inplace. This physical binding mechanism is essential to the limitless material functions of history.
Constituents
Source objects used in Mar Gauge were predominately mundane objects to which the natural mind validates passively on a second-to-second basis. These constituent objects include screws, nails, physical banknotes (1 USD), rope, twine, candles, wire, metal pipes, and others. A closer look at these objects can possibly alleviate mundane percepts.
Screws - sharp-pointed metal pin with a raised helical thread running around it and a slotted head, used to join things together by being rotated so that it pierces wood or other material and is held tightly in place. This physical binding mechanism is essential to the limitless material functions of history.
Legal Tender and Defacement Laws - Coins or Banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment of a debt. Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. Under this provision, currency defacement is generally defined as follows: Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Ropes vs. Twine- Twine is a synonym of rope. As nouns the difference between twine and rope is that twine is a twist; a convolution while rope is (uncountable) thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. As verbs the difference between twine and rope is that twine is to weave together while rope is to tie (something) with something.
