Rindon Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose oeuvre is deeply rooted in language. Moving through physical and virtual spaces, he explores how language shapes our reality: by failing, contradicting, or empowering. Johnson uses text as one of many media that he reconfigures to explore the effects of capitalism, climate, and technology on our construction of personal reality. His modes of expression range from publishing and virtual reality to working with leather, wood, and stone.
Rindon Johnson, Lyn Says #1: As for we who "love to be astonished," money makes money, luck makes luck. Moves forward, drives on. Class background not landscape--still here and there in 1969 I could feel the scope of collectivity. It was the present time for a little while, and not so new as we thought then, the present always after war. Ever since it has been hard for me to share my time. yellow of that sad room was again the yellow of naps, where she waited, restless, faithless, for more days. They say that the alternative for the bourgeoisie was gullibility. Call it water and dogs. Reason looks for two, then arranges it from there. But can one imagine a madman in love. Goodbye; enough that was good. There was a pause, a rose, something on paper. I may balk but I won't recede. Because desire is always embarrassing. At the beach, with a fresh flush. The child looks out. The berries are kept in the brambles, on wires on reserve for the birds. At a distance, the sun is small., 2023
Leather, oil, acrylic and wax
167.5 x 167.5 x 2 cm