Discourse, 2024
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Discourse, Dual Exhibition
Starkville Area Arts Council
Colvard Student Union Gallery, Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi
Fall 2024
Exhibition History
Discourse, Dual Exhibition
Starkville Area Arts Council
Colvard Student Union Gallery, Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi
Fall 2024
Discourse
Our narrative-seeking brains, our questions and answers, the conversations that these parts of ourselves have with one another, and what they become once they find their way outside of us—all dynamically ebb in and out of ourselves and back into the world, where the floating facets of our being encounter other systems. The facetiously named Discourse exists as both a humorous and serious commentary on the strange conversation we are all contributing to and experiencing simply by participating in existence.
In the late summer of 2024, Discourse initially existed as a dual-installment exhibition in Mississippi. Ishee was 21 years old. Discourse became yet another place for the artist’s strange mind for science to have a life externally. An appreciation for anatomy appears throughout the collection alongside humor, stream-of-consciousness writing, visual interruptions, and little breaks in the fourth wall. Ideas talk to one another, having their own discourse.
The exhibition also asked the viewer to consider their own role in the “Conversation.” The work continues to change as it encounters other minds. The drawings were conceived in strange places, at strange times, whenever it felt right, and sometimes when it felt very wrong.
Many of the original works are quite large, approximately 19 × 30 inches and drawn on archival paper, while others are small. Very small. Together, they form something like fragments of a dynamic conversation—separate thoughts and interruptions that become something larger through their proximity to one another.
Discourse is an exercise in designing, experimenting, and thinking out loud: a strange, playful reflection on what it means to be a person in the world among other people, continuously contributing to a conversation none of us entirely controls
Our narrative-seeking brains, our questions and answers, the conversations that these parts of ourselves have with one another, and what they become once they find their way outside of us—all dynamically ebb in and out of ourselves and back into the world, where the floating facets of our being encounter other systems. The facetiously named Discourse exists as both a humorous and serious commentary on the strange conversation we are all contributing to and experiencing simply by participating in existence.
In the late summer of 2024, Discourse initially existed as a dual-installment exhibition in Mississippi. Ishee was 21 years old. Discourse became yet another place for the artist’s strange mind for science to have a life externally. An appreciation for anatomy appears throughout the collection alongside humor, stream-of-consciousness writing, visual interruptions, and little breaks in the fourth wall. Ideas talk to one another, having their own discourse.
The exhibition also asked the viewer to consider their own role in the “Conversation.” The work continues to change as it encounters other minds. The drawings were conceived in strange places, at strange times, whenever it felt right, and sometimes when it felt very wrong.
Many of the original works are quite large, approximately 19 × 30 inches and drawn on archival paper, while others are small. Very small. Together, they form something like fragments of a dynamic conversation—separate thoughts and interruptions that become something larger through their proximity to one another.
Discourse is an exercise in designing, experimenting, and thinking out loud: a strange, playful reflection on what it means to be a person in the world among other people, continuously contributing to a conversation none of us entirely controls