ZENITH FOUNDATION
519 Bartlett St / San Francisco, CA 94110
zenithfound@yahoo.com
The ZENITH FOUNDATION is the name given to my ongoing multidisciplinary collage of cannibalistic and mutating work. The name itself is a bit of a play on words. A “zenith” can be broadly described as the point directly over your head, so the (zenith’s) “foundation” would be you, the observer. However, the two words together also imply an anonymous entity/organization that acts to deliver my missives to the world. Other definitions of the word zenith yield similarly interesting connotations.
Some themes that I continually mine in my work include: the physical manifestations of desire, anxiety, and paranoia; the traces left by sound, light and other forms dismissed as immaterial; a romantic skewing of the forms created by "logic", and a continual search for "everything in everything".
The (Dis)Information Age will not find beauty or revelation it's professed purity and speed of communication. Rather, it will be the sudden mutations that occur from too much, too soon; and the oft-noted societal attention deficit disorder. I choose to embrace these mutations especially as they strike cliche, hyperbole, scientific measure; a familiar face now digitized and piled on the digital landfill...Overlapping "truths" can make a "lie" which can reveal a greater personal truth.
I am drawn to psychedelia, déjà vu, synaesthetic experiences, absurdity and “pseudoscience”. I am against “common sense” in its most literal form, fixed definitions and limited use. The “grand collage” of the ZENITH FOUNDATION encompasses all media and disparate collaborations, though sound and its visual analogues often guide the work.
-Scott Kiernan
ZENITH FOUNDATION 2008
