The New Gallery - Thom Andriola - Houston, Texas Contemporary Fine Art

	David Fulton Still and Not Still December 2, 2006 - January 6, 2007 Identity is assigned once location is determined. Location requires the fixing of the process, requires the creation of a designation that is already redundant, a designation referencing that which is continually in flux, untouchable, defined, plotted and lost. A discontinuous location creates a discontinuous identity. The Alluvion works trace the contours of mapped lakes. Information is located and layered, re-presented, complicated. Shorelines retain only the inner identity, paint flows away from the origin, recombining, obscuring previous layers, forming shared territories, creating and taking possession of a location, a location soon to be modified, repositioned and lost. The work is an accumulation of events, an unfolding of the cartographic that mimics the organic, the geologic, the construction of a history - representing the world using the tools that simultaneously present and prevent the world from presenting itself in itself as itself. Not to advance into nature but into the record of nature, the map, the net of trails and measures. Without narrative, to advance to become lost, to create a position and take possession of that position, to become lost and return. To connect, projecting a trail quickly mislaid and lost. A view with a memory, a cartography of loss, grid less, map-less. David Fulton

David Fulton
Still and Not Still
December 2, 2006 - January 6, 2007

Identity is assigned once location is determined. Location requires the fixing of the process, requires the creation of a designation that is already redundant, a designation referencing that which is continually in flux, untouchable, defined, plotted and lost. A discontinuous location creates a discontinuous identity.

The Alluvion works trace the contours of mapped lakes. Information is located and layered, re-presented, complicated. Shorelines retain only the inner identity, paint flows away from the origin, recombining, obscuring previous layers, forming shared territories, creating and taking possession of a location, a location soon to be modified, repositioned and lost.

The work is an accumulation of events, an unfolding of the cartographic that mimics the organic, the geologic, the construction of a history - representing the world using the tools that simultaneously present and prevent the world from presenting itself in itself as itself.

Not to advance into nature but into the record of nature, the map, the net of trails and measures. Without narrative, to advance to become lost, to create a position and take possession of that position, to become lost and return. To connect, projecting a trail quickly mislaid and lost. A view with a memory, a cartography of loss, grid less, map-less.

David Fulton