Image courtesy of Allan Stone Gallery, NYC
""...Jerry's Demon was originally conceived to represent the turbulent
subconscious workings of the mind in response to the challenges and turmoil
presented by life. A referent to Hieronymous Bosch, the piece
is a wild, prickly, and haunted form that processes and interprets experience.
It's "mind" produces complex, aggressively dynamic light patterns as it
"integrates" the sounds and light that occur in its environment, but as
with all significant art, this sculpture can be interpreted in more than
one ways....
Image courtesy of Allan Stone Gallery, NYC
Pallas is a pioneer in the field of electronic/interactive sculpture.
One of the few artists working with electronics in the early l970s,
Pallas has created a sculpture that incorporates the depth and poetry we
want to see in art with the prescience we hope for from scientific philosopher/theoreticians.
Created well before scientific data documented the impact of environmental
stimuli on a developing fetus, this sculpture clearly calls to mind the
in utero relationship between mother and child. Connected by an umbilical
cord, the sounds heard through microphone in the womb-like piece produce
a reaction in the consciouness/head of the fetus. Much as the experiences
of a pregnant woman impact the developing child within her womb, the fetus-like
piece reacts with complex electrical responses as sounds are processed
by its logic circuits. The mind is stimulated and changed by sounds
occurring in the environment. The complex light patterns are a representation
of the pre-natal reactivity as the embryo responds to what occurs in the
outside environment. ....Pallas' electronic art disavows the sterile,
mechanistic use of technology and uses creates a associative, referential
and complex vocabulary in his art."
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