How many steps do you take in getting your face erased in the morning? A lot? None? Here’s a guy whose done a project three times, each of them a charcoal drawing on vellum, each of them taken through a process of nothing to life to death, all the while displayed at Galerie Pangee in Montreal. This project is interesting in that when I first glanced at it, I expected the face to go from black to full, full as in an instantly recognizable face. But nay! It goes from start to start! This is a project of deterioration called “(TRANS) FORMATIONS.”

This artist here, Jason Botkin, he’s cool. He’s got a sense of the ghost in the machine. That is, the ability to capture moments, time lengths, even people’s souls, in a video or still camera. Of course it’s all false in the sense that we can’t converse with it, we can’t interact with it the same way we’d of been able to if we’d been there while it was the way we’re looking at it through the camera now, but all the same, it’s still here for us to look at. And the whole idea’s stronger for it.

These drawings still exist somewhere in their “finished” state, but I don’t think you’re going to find them at the Pangee anymore. Look below the gallery for the three videos of the pieces that were displayed alongside them during their tenure at the gallery, sitting side-by-side as shown in the preview pic above.

Take a look through the gallery below and if you’d like to get in contact with Jason Botkin, email him at jjbotkin@yahoo.com or go to his website to see more of his works in their natural habitat http://jasonbotkin.com/ and tell him I think he’s cool.

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