Jeff Edwards

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This article is about Jeff Edwards the visual artist; for the military author, see Jeff Edwards (author)

A visual artist living and working in Los Angeles California. Underlying most of Edwards' work is an exploration of urban spaces through sculptural and photographic work. His works elaborate on the "nature" of cities by framing overt photographic representations of the infrastructure of the city (trains, roads, flood channels...etc.) with structural sculptural forms. The sources of his interest in the city seem to have an origin in his distinctly post-modern experience of growing up on a developing suburbian fringe of Orange County California where the infrastructure of bridges, tunnels drainage ditches and irrigation channels were the space of "nature" for him and his friends. As he describes it, those purely utilitarian places were boyhood refuge from the over-structured social experience of the hyper-suburbia of Southern California. From a personal origins in a "tagger" boyhood, Edwards' work extends towards larger questions about the construction of social spaces and maps through the physical metaphors of utilitarian elements in urban landscapes.

His own personal statement: "Life is a perpetual unwillingness to forget what occurred the moment before this. Life exists in cached shards called fragmentation. Life resembles time and space but is intermediated by recognition. Life disappears when we blink. We as humans are burdened with the responsibility of interpreting life. We believe that experience is confrontational, but the truth is far from that. We know time through our own measurement of it, but time is much more complicated than two hands rotating around a universal dial. Time exists with or without human interpretation of it. We are bound by it and it is this limited comprehension of time that creates the phenomenon we call space. Life is merely our faith in time to create a space that can be interpreted and navigable. My responsibility as a human is to distinguish between which experiences are shared and which are fabricated. As an artist it is my duty to publish my results. Call them facts, evidence, truth, reality or life, they are all fragments of this phenomenon we call space. Art is a moment in time where space becomes concrete evidence of life. That is my work."

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