Joan Hacker

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Thesis Exhibition

Artist Statement: Where do dreams go? How do we see with eyes closed? Is there a world beyond our senses?
An objective reality that exists outside perception? Or could the world be an extension of mind, like a dream, and what we name Truth an intersection of bubbles apparently congruent in perception, preconception and ideology? Is reality not utterly fluid? As ephemeral as a glittering, sunlit wave running through our fingers?

What does it mean to transduce the voice into a Collective Vision
Is isolation an experience of the body or the mind?
Who’s in charge of this prison? Who’s flying this bomber? What does it mean to Win in A War Against the Self?

Join me in Space connected Thru Sun, Radio Waves + Fibrous veins coursing through the Earth Join me in a New Dream...for although it does not exist, it Appears


L to R: Visitation (48" x 144" x 48", Mind, light, 2021)

Posthumous Honor, 2020
Sound video

The Tips of Waves 
Don’t Define Us 
But the Moms
the Cancers
Dead Cats

The 200 Dollar Tips 
Left to Cleaning Ladies 
Who Find Bodies 
Peaceful
Quiet
wrapp’t

Death is not a Low Lying Land 
Where only the Impoverished 
Weave

But a Path of Bringing 
of All that’s Important 
to the Present is
and All that
Bes