Boulder Creek Overpass Triptych Rehearsal

Boulder Creek Overpass Triptych Rehearsal
Boulder, Colorado
Summer 2022
Photomechanical Reproduction (and wheatpaste)

    Boulder Creek Overpass Triptych Rehearsal is a trio of panels installed in an underpass along the Boulder Creek [link to Boulder Creek info] in Boulder, Colorado. The constellations of imagery are grown from group(ing)s and folios of images that had accumulated in the artist's studio throughout and up to this point in the Summer 2022. Along the creek viewers can flow with or against the water, and in either direction through this imagery, quickly or slowly, experiencing the tempo and depth of Phillips' imagery from a multitude of perspectives – noticing different things from each other and something else each time.
    Some of the material included here is what could be considered complete artworks by the artist, (ex. High Tide 2 (w/ Pat Steir) and Paradise (according Jean Rhys - Sleep It off Lady), anniversary joyful journey full moon solstice fire); concentrated on the right panel, or the Medusa Duet Pair Sharing Wordless Poetry, Yellow GAN 2 (take 2) on the left panel. Other materials are well-established groups (ex. the group orbiting the 'godless universe' in right side of right panel, or the Sisyphus self-portrait and proginoskes on the left side of the right panel), as well as various collages in the left panel. Still other areas are made of elements that were floating around the studio at this time, "free radicals", as the artist often refers to them, some of these images have been in the artist's archive for nearly a quarter-century (re)used and recycled in various ways and contexts. The imagery symbolically and esoterically reflects on the artist's life in Boulder; a place of magic, nature, romance, wildness, dharma, caring, radicalism,white supremacy, gentrification, unaffordable housing, and any of the other joys and tragedies of a Millennial artist living through the 21st-century.