Organic Matter
2023 — 2024
Organic Matter operates on a basis of understanding that the strength in connection resides in the fact that it is ultimately temporary. The idea is that to honor the truth of fleeting moments, we must understand the power that is held in each moment’s ephemerality - an ephemerality granted by nature’s inherent basics of life. To take that moment and make a life (in a personal sense) out of it is something that moves beyond the allowances of nature and becomes entirely human. The act of experiencing moments one at a time, creating memories of them, and revisiting those memories is a process that imbues our human, nature-granted right to life with a specifically human experience.
Nature and its subsequent notions of death, birth, physicality, and form combine with the mankind-ification of pleasure through electronic music, light, community, and freedom in this work. Together they create a landscape of humanity that understands universal emotion, and it’s within that landscape that I have chosen to make a home for my memories.
Behind Closed Doors, 2023
Countermelodies of Converging Planes, 2023
Act of Contrition, 2023
Eventually, 2024
The Clash, 2024
History of a Boy, 2023
Oasis, 2023
The Garden, 2023
An Altar for Saint Metrotech, 2024
Propagation, 2024
Retroactive Interference, 2023
A Sentimental Practice in Wishful Thinking, 2023
Organic Matter also exists in the form of a booklet fit for a jewel CD case. Inspired by the role that music and community played in the process of creating the work, Gutoskey found the additional personal details provided by musicians in their CD inserts to be an important act of sentimentalism not far from what he was seeking to explore himself. The booklets provide a written, pulsating form of the thoughts behind the creation of the visual work.
