Project Statement
the kiddie pool of unknowing aims to explore unreadability and ambiguous perception, turning some of the more uncomfortable parts of my everyday experience as a non-binary person — being misread, unseen, or otherwise looked past as unreadable — against the viewer. Through presenting deliberate unreadabilities I hope to hold space to externalize and experience my own joys, soak in the feelings held by my aesthetic choices, and create room for a more playful sort of unknowing.
Artist Statement
lately my work has been focused on exploring the fuzzy, indeterminate spaces between meaning and ambiguity that are glossed over in our everyday acts of reading. through publishing hyper-cropped photographic images or designing visual syntaxes that do not hold predetermined meaning I have been creating spaces to playfully explore this visual poetics.
About Will Mairs
Will Mairs is a non-binary printmaker, book artist, and computer-nerd living and working in Portland, OR. in addition to printing large fields of indeterminate marks, they enjoy taking photographs of nothing in particular, futzing around with various presses, and dreamingly foolishly of ambiguous syntaxes.
MFA in Print Media