Southland Video Anthology

JOHN STURGEON
My tapes germinate from experiences, visions and dreams;
expanding in a gestation process where ideas are manipulated
as notations, drawings and hieroglyphs. I view my work as
poetic, as a synthesis of drawings, painting, and sculptural
concerns, as well as sound and time compositions. The intent
is to distill the creative process into concise metaphors, which
convey the initial power and energy of the psychic
experiences. The structure attempts to suspend the viewer's
conscious act of intellectualization and place him in a state
conducive to direct experience. Each video traces an
expansion of my boundaries, electromagnetic diagrams of self,
a continual probing and documenting with the video eye, the
video ear, the whirling texture of being.
© John Sturgeon
Artist's Catalogue Statement
Southland Video Anthology, 1976
Long Beach Museum of Art
