Daniel Weiner

(American, b. 1965)
I have been working with the creative model of a psychological bureaucracy.  In some cases I think of my work as letters (epistles) in others I address the experience of reading and interpreting texts.  An imaginary bureau processes aesthetic questions and problems that emerge in the studio.  I use pages from textbooks, technical manuals and literature in digest form as the support for small paintings drawings, writings and collages. The found pages are chosen for their potential interpretations and their pagination.  I collaborate with the original intention of the page, which usually seems no less complicated than my own.  I think of myself as a bureaucrat of the type in Kafka’s “The Trial”.  Reports are submitted and processed. Their contents are scrutinized and annotated.  I hope the works render the idea of a psychologically inert text, a purely declarative sentence fallacious and formally recognize the strata of significance in any cultural document.  Even the writers of example sentences in English textbooks have desires.

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