The Artwork of Joshua Luther

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A Single Line
Much of my work deals with the tenuous and enigmatic nature of meaning. These drawings are created with a single line. At first thought such an innocuous thing as a line could describe such a wide range of meaning including images of violence, eroticism, or even the transcendent idea of God.

A Single Line

Much of my work deals with the tenuous and enigmatic nature of meaning. These drawings are created with a single line. At first thought such an innocuous thing as a line could describe such a wide range of meaning including images of violence, eroticism, or even the transcendent idea of God.

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Orientation is such a relative notion, in actual space orientation is completely arbitrary. Yet we as humans determine our world view in terms of up and down, good and bad.

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Two Obstructed Self Portraits

These represent two self portraits. One in the subjective state the other in the objective state.

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Mouth Diagrams

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Yardstick Universe

This piece illustrates the convergence of signifier and signified with the word Yardstick measuring thirty-six inches, while, in contrast the broad disconnect of the word Universe measuring thirty-six inches.

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No Particular Order
This piece is mainly about order. Written language is a set of symbols. And when those symbols are in a certain “order”, they have meaning. But that order is a man made order.I wanted to touch on that hierarchy of order. For example, 1.2.3. being a higher level of order than A.B.C. I wanted to present two sets of the letters that make up the word “meaning”. And to posit, that both sets are in no particular order.

No Particular Order

This piece is mainly about order. Written language is a set of symbols. And when those symbols are in a certain “order”, they have meaning. But that order is a man made order.

I wanted to touch on that hierarchy of order. For example, 1.2.3. being a higher level of order than A.B.C. I wanted to present two sets of the letters that make up the word “meaning”. And to posit, that both sets are in no particular order.

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Meaning Scale

Much of my work is creating contradictions between every day assumptions and material objects. Sometimes, I like to use modes of measurement to show the value of the implied meaning of language and the physical realities of the world.

This piece is an example of playing off the idea of meaning having weight. I wanted to stack up an entire language, with all it’s meaning along with it, against an innate piece of plaster.

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Big Bang Genesis

This a visual representation of the marriage of two different ideologies of the creation. I wanted to use the first chapter of the Bible as a drawing material. Through this mode of drawing, I hope to bring written language off it’s lofty pedestal and into the terrestrial world of line, shape, and form.

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