Kathryn Jill Johnson Huntsville, Alabama www.kathrynjilljohnson.com
The Equivalence Principle, Mixed media on panel, 24 x 24 inches, 2016 I’ve been wondering about the agent that gives weight to experience. Is there a direct proportion of an event’s weight, the distance between it and the self that predicts its acuteness? Is the gravity of the situation, its awfulness, measured by the space between us and what happened? Remoteness in time, proximity to the body, and the possibility of intervention— this is what I am parsing out. 112