DOUG(LAS) LEWIS
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    • Grand World 2016
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    • Astro World - 2020
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    • Triangle Space 2006
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    • I Think There for, 2018
    • In|Outsource - 2015
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Sound and Vision 
Sound and Vision is an ongoing body of work that explores the phenomena and dissonance between them.  My interests  in film began years before ​my life in Beijing, but its vast urban expanse took me into new cultural directions. The city with over 20 million people, over-stimulated my senses. The everyday barrage of bodies, noise, light, smells, traffic and even architecture, messed with my well being. I constantly ask myself  "do sounds drive images - or do images cue sounds?" ​
​Standing Room, digital photo on aluminium, 2019
The Skin Between Us, surveillance camera, monitor, 2020
Picture
Chuckles, digital print, 35"x45", 2018

Sound and Vision is a body of work trying to reconcile the contradictions between the "sounds" and "things". On a daily basis, I realized that I needed coping-mechanisms. ​I became a student of Zen Buddhism, learning to slow things down, and detach from over-stimulation, which was only so good. Next came noise-cancelling earphones, hot saunas, wearing all sorts of protection for respiratory, ear and eye (sleeping masks). My senses were being usurped, and my art practice was becoming a form of defence mechanism. Sound and Vision explores how environments  alter perceptions.
Long Border, 50"X60" digital print on aluminium, 2014
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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