Statement by Paul Krainak

Paul Krainak

Situationists and Art Povera group, etc.

I'm not an historian so I don't intend to take a scholarly position, but while there are significant modern and contemporary artists who have used nature as a subject, few that I can think of have attempted to engage waste and naturally degraded parts of the rural environment as a worthy subject for contemplation and expression. (and what you're doing seems very different than environmental artists who gather waste products and blur the distinction between political documentation and aesthetics) So while it's well accepted that the urban environment is a sanctioned art territory, we still are less inclined to think of the rural as worthy.

Any thoughts? I like this way to approach your newer work as I believe the artworld has wrung just about every drop out of the binary logic ofurban vs. rural. I want to promote the rural as an equal partner, culturally.