Moratorium Foundation

Galleries For documentary versus expressive purposes.

There is now an overt utility to my creative enterprises - renovation. Elizabeth and I are transforming an early 20th century church into a studio / gallery for supporting artists' residencies.

We are working from the ground level [concrete lower level] on up to the roof [wood / Metal].

Affiliation: Moratorium Foundation
Founders: Tyler Bingham & Elizabeth Depew
Location: Elizabethton, TN
Current Gallery: August 2024

“Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality...Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them."

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"The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling."


From: Christopher Alexander's, "Timess Way of Building."



Music Composition

Back With a 12 String
I am repetitive; I insert subtle changes; I lose myself in the patterns. I honestly have no idea what's going to happen when I sit down with the guitar.

NOTHING FOUND!
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Photography Galleries

Uncontrolled Environments

Some days it's hard to emotionally commit to picking up the camera, knowing such a labor regularly develops an unassuming barrage of connections and discords.

“The picture-story involves a joint operation of the brain, the eye and the heart. The objective of this joint operation is to depict the content of some event which is in the process of unfolding, and to communicate impressions. Sometimes a single event can be so rich in itself and its facets that it is necessary to move all around it in your search for the solution to the problems it poses – for the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving."


From: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1952). "The Decisive Moment"

Uncontrolled Environments

Christopher Alexander might argue that any space without regular human intereaction, is a 'design failure' of a space. Any area with defined boundaries, usually by a name / title, I consider spatially specific - including those with zero human interaction, those spaces where crumbling souls swirl in stale, damp air. Spaces host people. They may not think for themselves, but they certainly evolve in some twisted Darwinian ideology - survival of the fittest. They reveal themselves as a result of what treats the guest notices from their buffet.

From Silver City & Houston

Yesterday's Studios

Searching the Raw

Considered Today

I react to that building [on the canvas] by adding or subtracting visual cues. I strive for new gestalts of design preferences, as those intuitively guide the growth of the architect.

I experiment with the narratives' enrapturing ideas, suggesting the world I [choose to] see is merely a reflction of my self.

It's a breeding ground of the paradox, enmeshed within synchronicity.

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