Quinn Ray Keck - Acknowledge the Shadows III, 2024
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Image Dimensions: 38.1 x 52.4 cm
Unique Work
Unframed
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This work explores the destruction and reconstruction of the grid, and the fight for self in late stage capitalism through printmaking, painting, creative coding and world building. The ultimate goal of their practice is to crack the lenses society handed people to view the world with – not to replace that lens with my own dogma but to inspire people to seek understandings of their own. As the field of cognitive sociology explains, humans experience the world not only as individuals, but through memberships in various thought communities with distinct culturally specific cognitive traditions(1) that have considerable diversity and political dimensions even within the same culture. Much of the power of these systems is how invisible they are, so that even naming them is a radical act – default is never neutral.
Quinn Keck’s work is also deeply connected to their internal world, and shows viewers one journey in accepting neurodivergence, unlearning, and even finding delight in questioning the world. Through obliterating their realities in their own marks and shapes, they begin the journey of reclaiming my stories from the various gazes placed upon them. Each piece combines images of bay area windows, bart, and everyday encounters combined with burnt letters to a friend who passed to create images and vocabularies. Their process is one of constantly iterating on new and old images, just as we all are a series of imperfect versions of ourselves improving with each iteration but never fully finished.
(1) Eviatar Zerubavel, Cognitive Sociology: between the personal and the universal mind
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Image Dimensions: 38.1 x 52.4 cm
Unique Work
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £35.00
This work explores the destruction and reconstruction of the grid, and the fight for self in late stage capitalism through printmaking, painting, creative coding and world building. The ultimate goal of their practice is to crack the lenses society handed people to view the world with – not to replace that lens with my own dogma but to inspire people to seek understandings of their own. As the field of cognitive sociology explains, humans experience the world not only as individuals, but through memberships in various thought communities with distinct culturally specific cognitive traditions(1) that have considerable diversity and political dimensions even within the same culture. Much of the power of these systems is how invisible they are, so that even naming them is a radical act – default is never neutral.
Quinn Keck’s work is also deeply connected to their internal world, and shows viewers one journey in accepting neurodivergence, unlearning, and even finding delight in questioning the world. Through obliterating their realities in their own marks and shapes, they begin the journey of reclaiming my stories from the various gazes placed upon them. Each piece combines images of bay area windows, bart, and everyday encounters combined with burnt letters to a friend who passed to create images and vocabularies. Their process is one of constantly iterating on new and old images, just as we all are a series of imperfect versions of ourselves improving with each iteration but never fully finished.
(1) Eviatar Zerubavel, Cognitive Sociology: between the personal and the universal mind
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Image Dimensions: 38.1 x 52.4 cm
Unique Work
Unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £35.00
This work explores the destruction and reconstruction of the grid, and the fight for self in late stage capitalism through printmaking, painting, creative coding and world building. The ultimate goal of their practice is to crack the lenses society handed people to view the world with – not to replace that lens with my own dogma but to inspire people to seek understandings of their own. As the field of cognitive sociology explains, humans experience the world not only as individuals, but through memberships in various thought communities with distinct culturally specific cognitive traditions(1) that have considerable diversity and political dimensions even within the same culture. Much of the power of these systems is how invisible they are, so that even naming them is a radical act – default is never neutral.
Quinn Keck’s work is also deeply connected to their internal world, and shows viewers one journey in accepting neurodivergence, unlearning, and even finding delight in questioning the world. Through obliterating their realities in their own marks and shapes, they begin the journey of reclaiming my stories from the various gazes placed upon them. Each piece combines images of bay area windows, bart, and everyday encounters combined with burnt letters to a friend who passed to create images and vocabularies. Their process is one of constantly iterating on new and old images, just as we all are a series of imperfect versions of ourselves improving with each iteration but never fully finished.
(1) Eviatar Zerubavel, Cognitive Sociology: between the personal and the universal mind
