Brian Brijbag

Examples of Artist Statements
“These stones are not mere containers, the partnership between tree and stone will be stronger for the tree having grown from the stone, rather than being stuck in it. I chose these granite stones because they have had a long and, at times, violent past. My working of the stones is a continuation of the journey these stones have made so far. They have a history of movement, struggle and change -- appropriate associations, I hope, for a Holocaust memorial garden."
-Andy Goldsworthy, Holocaust Memorial project (stones with tress growing out of the recesses)

“’The Sun’ was constructed by passing ocean waves (recorded at Rye Beach, New Hampshire), through various digital processing devices. The most articulate of these processors was a tone generator able to isolate and respond to specific frequencies present in the ocean waves.  The concept behind The Sun was to make a static music or a kind of music that just shimmered in place.“
-Andrew Deutsch, The Sun (award winning sonic art)

When does a log decomposing in the woods become humus on the forest floor? Asking this question leads to the realization that what we casually perceive as discrete states of being in ourselves, others and the world around us, can more accurately be described as complex patterns of becoming, embedded in a field of interpenetrating actions. Things are interdependent. The log is becoming humus; the humus is becoming something else.
-Maria Artemis, Heavy Levity (sculpture of decomposing log)

The way I've been working over the years has to do with space that was once inhabited by, for instance, water. It has to do with marks that are left and memories that are left from those marks. When objects actually contain liquid in the real world, it becomes another issue because realizing the piece involves casting a liquid into a form to create a solid object. Whether it ends up being an enormous architectural  piece or an intimate piece that looks quite ritualistic, the process from liquid to solid is always one of my primary concerns.
-Rachel Whiteread, Water (plaster mould of water in a tub)

Untitled Stream uses a layering and repeating process with imagery of bare-branched trees lying in a shallow stream. This 7th iteration of that process results in 16,384 layers of video. Moments that originally lasted for a second are drawn out and altered, blending with the events preceding and following, creating sensuous new landscapes that are constantly moving and transforming.
-Debora Bernagozzi, Untitled Stream (video)