On the Verge of Recognition

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Eligibility: National

The distinction between the tangible and the abstract is constantly moving, blurring, tricking us into seeing what's never been there. Or making invisible what we know to be right in front of us. On the Verge of Recognition seeks work that plays in the strange space between the knowable and the impossible, between truth and fiction, between the banality and wonder of the everyday. We want the surreal feeling of the mundane turned magical, of seeing a pattern in the scattered leaves of a tall shrub, of repeating a word to the point that it loses all meaning and becomes a strange aural rhythm. Works can be riffs on the strangeness of our fleshy forms, the absurdity and limitation of language, the way a simple change of color can turn a mundane object into a beautiful fascination. Be poetic, brutal, obtuse, ham-fisted, stoned but articulate, curious and confused, and on the nose.

Please submit a brief statement and up to 3 images. All mediums accepted.

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Portland, Oregon
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