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This work continues a series that examines aspects of navigation over water and the potentialmetaphor of a geographical journey correlating to the unfolding of one's own life. Earlierimages derived from concrete navigational aids have shifted to a focus on the environmentitself, which has raised new questions about experience and perception. In these pieces I aminterested in the specific relationship between the images and the nature of the structure theymake up. Both aspects represent — and in fact are — stylized shorthand for a phenomenon.Both speak (for me) of how we attempt to understand and categorize experience.

The behavior of water frustrates precise analysis, yet suggests systems that may be recognizedand even predicted. As an environment, water is difficult to apprehend, difficult even to see,subject to varied reflectivity and transparency. Our understanding of water is subject to externalcircumstances as much as to it's own nature. Similarly shifting are one's subjective responses towhat can be an inviting or a hostile environment. Synonymous with both luxurious vacation sitesand the menace of the deep, water is associated with fantasy as well as fears. I am interestedin parallels between our perception of water, and that of our own experience.

Exhibition dates: December 2nd – December 30th, 2006

Artist walk-thru: Saturday, December 9th, 11 – noon

Front Cover: Navigator (detail), 21" x 120" x 6", ceramic and steel, 2004

JEREMY JERNEGAN

Surge

Transit, 38" x 61" x 8", glazed ceramic and steel, 2005

Surge, 42" x 60" x 8", ceramic and steel, 2005

Convey, 35" x 52" x 9", glazed ceramic and steel, 2005

Navigator, 21" x 120" x 6", ceramic and steel, 2004

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Compass, 62" x 45" x 9", glazed ceramic and steel, 2004

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