RNBWMKR/Emmett Potter lives and works in Tempe Arizona and shares a studio space with his wife, artist Kristin Bauer.

My video and audio work explores the concept of using an implied narrative of the human experience, condition, and society based on familiar environmental sounds, field recordings of urban and nature settings and cinematic musical themes juxtaposed with nonmusical sound, noise and auditory glitch experiments. Using an audio mixer, the score is then relayed into a generative analog and digital video synthesizer module rack system that visually expresses the sound waves as light, color and movement. The final result is a visual/audio media artwork pairing sound and light, that can be experienced as a singular live performance or created in the studio and saved as a digital movie file for playback at any location using a media player and viewed on a monitor or projected screen combined with a sound system or PA.

My multimedia work is informed by and oftentimes constructed with appropriated mid 20th century comic graphics, advertisements, found objects and photography. I view my works as handmade ready-mades, as the process by which I adapt and collage pop culture icons or sculptural objects evokes and awakens Western cultural myths that are already embedded into us.  Through this methodology I engage with Jungian archetypes and allegorical imagery found in commercial memorabilia and use it to create a cyclical pseudo-mirror that reflects back to us that which we are already programmed to know.  Specifically in my paintings, large blocks of candy colors replace details of characterization and scenes that are so familiar the identity and narrative specifics are irrelevant.  The generalization of the imagery becomes a tableau for viewers’ interjection.

“Myth is the natural and indispensable intermediate stage between unconscious and conscious cognition” -  Carl Jung