Scott Henstrand Personal Information

In observing my students in their struggle for identity and making sense of symbol systems, I began to use text in my art as a way to view the boundaries of language and experience. *In creating language, we define and form boundaries around this amorphous experience of perception. My intent is to give the viewer language in its partial form, at the inchoate place where our given meaning to the drawn symbol falls between representing an abstract concept or a concrete object. *The question is whether we experience our environment-our Place-outside of language and symbol systems. Place is what is directly in sensory experience, what immediately surrounds. Place is not what we ultimately experience. Flooded in language, language as all, of the simulation, we live a virtual existence, which in our desire we determine to be fundamental rather than a fabrication of our social structure and which bypasses our physicalness for our abstracted nature.