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fluorescent lights acrylic sheeting, audio equipment, hardware, speakers, cd, sound, 3" x 7" x 50", 2000

Both objects in this piece contain a speaker. Played through each speaker is a recorded sound track of me imitating the electric hum created by fluorescent lights. The sound track runs infinitely.

Let’s continue by identifying some of the work most riddled by the possibility of not being seen. Find There, that is the power and Fluorescent Lights. Reuben Lorch-Miller’s fluorescent light fixture replicas appear as the everyday objects that they are meant to represent. Through the extent of mimicry employed in their making, however, they heighten your sense of what we actually stop noticing about things when we take them for being ordinary. The soundtrack to this piece, the continuous hum of the artist imitating the hum of a fluorescent light, is more likely to catch your attention than the fixtures themselves.

Robert McCarren, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Nick Normal, Jayeon Kwon

It's a basic attitude of semi-essentialism that the 'real stuff' is right there. Of course, this is nothing new in art. Works of art have long served to show us things or bring attention to phenomena that might otherwise have been missed. Or they show us things in a new way. Works of semi-essentialism are unique perhaps in the simple fact that they nestle so closely among the things that are already there. At the same time, a certain amount of work is required. It isn't the point, contra Fluxus, that art and life are simply one. It's that art can peek out from all kinds of places. One needs to cultivate, therefore, a knack for noticing things.

sunsets

fluorescent lights
acrylic sheeting, audio equipment, hardware,
speakers, cd, sound, 3" x 7" x 50", 2000