DOUG(LAS) LEWIS
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                                                                   Blue Shirt Recordings

Economic classicism begins with an "aesthetic" judgment. My interests in ubiquitous "blue shirts" first came from  employment experiences at a public art gallery.  The staff "workers" wore the ubiquitous blue, often long sleeved, shirts. I am not sure if that is  synonymous with being "blue collar" and my interest was to disguise myself with one on, on certain days and not on others. It began with me working as a studio technician in the education department of a public museum. On certain days, I'd wear the blue worker's shirt (that all the technicians wore). They talked to me regularly, when I had my shorts on. When I dressed in my regular clothes (studio technician) they ignored me, almost peripheralizing me. In sharp contrast, "white collar" workers from the curatorial or administration would ignore me (no eye contact) when I had my blue shirt on, but on the off-days, with my regular choice of clothes on, they would love to talk to me about "art and my work". 
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​Blue Shirt Recordings, digital prints on photo paper, Scrok&Pulhman at Art Helix, 2016
The first work done in 1992 inspired me to follow labourers in blue shirts and most often, yellow construction helmets.  In 1992 I said " I want to be a blue collar art maker with a white collar academic". 
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​Blue Shirt, Ideas, Digital print on photo paper, 2016
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  • HOME
  • Present - 2016
    • Sound and Vision
    • Video work present - 2014
    • Photography 2012 - present
    • Mixed-media
    • Audio work 2014- present
  • PERFORMANCE | SOCIAL PRACTICE
    • Ink Me in Beijing 2017
    • Screen Time
    • Shantou Tea 2012
    • Blue Shirt - recordings 1992, 2016
  • Investigations
    • Grand World 2016
    • Brick-collage 2008
    • Super Bar Street Project 2003
    • SideWalk Project 2002 -06
    • Synaptic Pop 2005- pres
    • Streetgames
    • Stamp Project 2004
    • Salt Licks 2000 -02
  • 3rd Practice Projects
    • #3rd Practice Theory
    • Astro World - 2020
    • Jus' Toying Around - 2017
    • Illegal Aliens 2015
    • All Art or No Art 2012
    • 798 Takeout 2014
    • Home Away from Home - 2006
    • Triangle Space 2006
  • Curating
    • thoughts on curating
    • I Think There for, 2018
    • In|Outsource - 2015
    • Take Out (Dao Bao) 2011-13
    • Bug City 2003
    • From > To 2002-03
  • ABOUT
    • Contact | CV | BIO
    • Biographies
    • Archived work
    • Music
    • Art Instructor Under Construction