Justin Lowman
Windows : A four-part project over the course of a year an undetermined amount of time two years
February 2, 2019- February 2, 2020 TBD February 2, 2021
Four interventions at four different times of year— starting at the front of the house and working around clockwise -- will frame various moments in time. Each installment will be loosely associated with the cardinal directions, as well as seasonal changes as predicated on light conditions. The work engages the built environment using the given architecture as a starting point to call attention to materiality, both past and present, as well as time itself.
Phase one of four, February 2 - November 8, 2019
Double opening, Saturday, February 2
6:24 am - 9:24 am & 3:21 pm - 6:21 pm
Double opening, Saturday, February 2
6:24 am - 9:24 am & 3:21 pm - 6:21 pm
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LF Notes:
Interior/exterior/private/public. Framing the temporal landscape. Fragmented vistas. Built environments- structures of false domesticity. Every moment that passes — the work emphasizes and frames that moment. |
JL Notes:
Odyssey/1910/2020. Windows/hyperspace/hyper-forms/hybrids. Threshold(s). Portals/surveillance/time-sensitivity/transparency. Domestic disturbance. Firewalls/wallpapers/screensavers. Partitions/Pictures/Pixels. |
Photographs by Paul Sevlas.
Phase Three of Four
Opening on Sunday, November 17, 2019
Viewing from 11:37am - 6:16 pm
The piece is activated by the movement of the sun and lack thereof. Arriving at different points during the viewing will result in diverse experiences. It is recommended, though not required, to either visit for a prolonged period of time or multiple times.
Opening on Sunday, November 17, 2019
Viewing from 11:37am - 6:16 pm
The piece is activated by the movement of the sun and lack thereof. Arriving at different points during the viewing will result in diverse experiences. It is recommended, though not required, to either visit for a prolonged period of time or multiple times.
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LF Notes:
Extensions: Roof and shelter :: deadlines and exhibitions Movement through spacial memory. Indexical to a different time and transposed to a new area. Latticed scrim in relation to privacy hedge. Interior/exterior/private/public |
JL Notes:
Odyssey/1910/2020. Windows/hyperspace/hyper-forms/hybrids. Threshold(s). Portals/surveillance/time-sensitivity/transparency. Domestic disturbance. Firewalls/wallpapers/screensavers. Partitions/Pictures/Pixels. |
Phase Three, Part Two: This Is Not An Opening
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, Virtual Viewing from 8:00 am - 2:00 am See the documentation here: Twitch TV
This third iteration of Lowman’s Windows takes as its subject, the south-facing picture window; it loosely adopts the day and time-frame from James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, first published in 1922 (just twelve short years after The Homer Project house itself was built). Between the approximate hours of 8 am on June 16th and 2 am the next day, a live-stream will capture internal and external meandering light and sound, invoking Joyce’s stream of consciousness writing style, one that complicates internal thoughts with external events. Phase Three, Part Two takes as its mode a more abstract condition, fleeting sights and sounds between site and artistic interventions, frameworks that correspond with the site itself. It is as much a reflection on revelations of discursive thinking and being, as it is a meditation on current times, the passage of time, real time now.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, Virtual Viewing from 8:00 am - 2:00 am See the documentation here: Twitch TV
This third iteration of Lowman’s Windows takes as its subject, the south-facing picture window; it loosely adopts the day and time-frame from James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, first published in 1922 (just twelve short years after The Homer Project house itself was built). Between the approximate hours of 8 am on June 16th and 2 am the next day, a live-stream will capture internal and external meandering light and sound, invoking Joyce’s stream of consciousness writing style, one that complicates internal thoughts with external events. Phase Three, Part Two takes as its mode a more abstract condition, fleeting sights and sounds between site and artistic interventions, frameworks that correspond with the site itself. It is as much a reflection on revelations of discursive thinking and being, as it is a meditation on current times, the passage of time, real time now.
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LF Notes:
Heat and sunlight Protection/shield/membranes Long afternoons and dark shades Fragmented brightness Moving from one space/location/position to another to find comfort Overlapping Perforations Interior vs. Exterior :: Exterior vs. Interior |
JL Notes:
Odyssey/1910/2020. Windows/hyperspace/hyper-forms/hybrids. Threshold(s). Portals/surveillance/time-sensitivity/transparency. Domestic disturbance. Firewalls/wallpapers/screensavers. Partitions/Pictures/Pixels. Partitions/Pictures/Pixels.Streams, Seams |
Phase Four, Part Four: Double-Takes
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Virtual Viewing from 6:24-9:24am and 3:21-6:21pm See the documentation here
The Homer Project presents the fourth and final installment of what has become a two-year art project titled Windows. This fourth installation, Phase 4, Part 4, Double-Takes, takes as its location a North window of the den/office/library at the home’s northeast corner. Utilizing key material and audio elements from the previous three iterations of Windows, Lowman reconstructs and situates a light box on the sill covering the window and part of the wall. What started out in 2019 as a sprawling, potentially aggressive intervention into the home's interior is now distilled into a much quieter, more resolute object that not only occupies the window frame itself, but it also frames the neighbor’s brick wall echoing construction materials of the time. In the first and last iterations of Windows, hearth bricks are considered. Thus, the project is coming full circle, simultaneously evolved and consistent.
Windows: Phase 4, Part 4: Double-Takes responds as much to the present as it does the past. Doublings abound. For example, the Windows project as a whole starts and ends on February 2, Groundhog's Day, two years apart. Repetition and shadow become focal elements through light and sound. Double-Takes punctuates the two-year Windows project by simultaneously looking backward and forward, outward and inward. It is a window that seems to be closing, while at the same time maintaining a view of current living circumstances. So, whereas two years ago, there was a literal, modified outlook at The Homer Project with Lowman's Phase 1, Part 1, Double-Takes is much more enclosed which reflects our current moment, a moment within a world coming to terms with living conditions challenged by both a global health crisis as well as domestic issues surrounding difference of many kinds. Thus, interior experiences are doubled in this final project while embracing thresholds of external interaction.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Virtual Viewing from 6:24-9:24am and 3:21-6:21pm See the documentation here
The Homer Project presents the fourth and final installment of what has become a two-year art project titled Windows. This fourth installation, Phase 4, Part 4, Double-Takes, takes as its location a North window of the den/office/library at the home’s northeast corner. Utilizing key material and audio elements from the previous three iterations of Windows, Lowman reconstructs and situates a light box on the sill covering the window and part of the wall. What started out in 2019 as a sprawling, potentially aggressive intervention into the home's interior is now distilled into a much quieter, more resolute object that not only occupies the window frame itself, but it also frames the neighbor’s brick wall echoing construction materials of the time. In the first and last iterations of Windows, hearth bricks are considered. Thus, the project is coming full circle, simultaneously evolved and consistent.
Windows: Phase 4, Part 4: Double-Takes responds as much to the present as it does the past. Doublings abound. For example, the Windows project as a whole starts and ends on February 2, Groundhog's Day, two years apart. Repetition and shadow become focal elements through light and sound. Double-Takes punctuates the two-year Windows project by simultaneously looking backward and forward, outward and inward. It is a window that seems to be closing, while at the same time maintaining a view of current living circumstances. So, whereas two years ago, there was a literal, modified outlook at The Homer Project with Lowman's Phase 1, Part 1, Double-Takes is much more enclosed which reflects our current moment, a moment within a world coming to terms with living conditions challenged by both a global health crisis as well as domestic issues surrounding difference of many kinds. Thus, interior experiences are doubled in this final project while embracing thresholds of external interaction.
Justin Lowman is an artist, arts educator, and founder of Parthenia Projects based in Northridge, CA, a Los Angeles suburb. He creates site-specific work bridging art and architecture in order to engage with perceptions of time, space, and the interaction of form as it pertains to multiplicity and relevant inter-dimensional objects. His work has been exhibited at Agency Contemporary in Los Angeles; the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA; High Desert Test Sites in Wonder Valley, CA and Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA, among various other venues. He received his MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.