Copying

Ideas revolving around a perceived need to copy the real will be the center of this thesis discussion. Specifically these will be addressed in two forms, the copying of individual objects and the replication of scenarios in which objects coexist and interrelate. Artists' and hobbyists' approaches to copying objects, scenarios, and environments both mechanically and visually will be reviewed along with some discussions on issues of the literal and its relationship to copying and to art production. My specific process of selection, recordation, production, and organization of the copies and scenarios will be outlined. This includes single sided and all sided pencil drawings of what are generally considered ordinary or non-visual objects. In the accompanying installation, five primary aspects of my procedure will be portrayed. These include a life-sized composite copy of an interior that will house real objects, a life-sized scenario depicting an exterior in the gallery, a life-sized copy of an object placed in the exterior, a 1:32 scale table top scenario, and a catalog of all objects and surfaces recorded to date. Influences relating to this need to copy, catalog, and build scenarios owe heavily to ongoing issues that relate to childhood interests in manufactured play sets and scale plastic models. These relationships, the projected continuation of this copying process, and how the byproducts interface with the viewer will be discussed in what is by design an open ended conclusion