Beef Basin. My time spent at Fieldworks led me to process an experience I often have. There is an unknown quality to it, that sometimes leads to fear. Time and place.

Insofar, Blend, Quigley Art Gallery, Gunnison, CO

Something From Everything, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah

https://patrickdurka.bandcamp.com/album/encan

Timeless Earth (close up). Lake Bonneville clay, Mt. Hood pyroclastic flow, oil on wood.

Timeless Earth. Lake Bonneville clay, Mt. Hood pyroclastic flow, oil on wood.

Abiotic Oil. Utah green clay, oil on canvas.

Rand Corp, Utah green clay, oil on canvas.

Ice skating on a frozen mirage lake. Single Channel Video, 2021

Reality and the projection of ideals is here. Through declassified materials: memos, scientific studies, budget proposals, and through stories told to one another, either by locals or others. What constitutes if that's not to be real? Can enough breaks create a new projection that is in flux with reality? Our ideals are out of whack, or is that what ideals are? Are these ideals just a mask? If so, fakeness is here and projects outward. That is to be grounded with time. Deep time: these ordeals move like the spreading of an area. Rifts open and reveal.

Ice skating on a frozen mirage lake. Single Channel Video, 2021

Reality and the projection of ideals is here. Through declassified materials: memos, scientific studies, budget proposals, and through stories told to one another, either by locals or others. What constitutes if that's not to be real? Can enough breaks create a new projection that is in flux with reality? Our ideals are out of whack, or is that what ideals are? Are these ideals just a mask? If so, fakeness is here and projects outward. That is to be grounded with time. Deep time: these ordeals move like the spreading of an area. Rifts open and reveal.

alleviated stress. Single Channel Video, 2021