In the past my art has been primarily
representational. Recently, I've had the chance to expand my horizons
and experiment with the experience of drawing. Now, as I start the
process of drawing I try to withhold conscious direction, not responding
to abstract mental concepts but to the experience of a particular time,
place, person or even sound. As an image starts to form from this
doodling process it's inevitable that it awaken to consciousness.
My task then is to keep moving, withholding
aesthetic judgments and flowing with the feeling process that fills one
with joy when drawing is spontaneous and unreserved. I feel as though I
am creating a visually evocative language that is as yet undefined and
shrouded in mystery. This process, along with science, philosophy and
metaphysics, helps manifest my desire to confront the mystery of
existence without demystifying it.
This seeming contradiction is simultaneously the
journey and destination blended together in harmony. For me it seems
that art and science, quantum physics in particular, have beautiful,
sublime parallel visions. Within the rarefied atmosphere at the highest
levels of art and science exists the implicit power for either training
the morality of society or perversely subverting it. With this in mind I
enjoy entertaining the thought that the intrinsic value of art for it’s
beneficiaries is not monetary but in it’s ability to feed the spirit and
dispel selfish desires.
At this juncture of my journey I feel it necessary
to nurture a playfulness, be unpretentious and embrace painting as a
wonderful, virtuous endeavor and possibly convey this through my art. In
exploring this domain it is inevitable that some of the work have dark
connotations and conjure up anxiety in a yin to yang response. It is my
hope that this produces a cathartic affect in the viewer as it does in
me, resulting in a calm akin to the one experienced after an adrenaline
rush. Pablo Picasso said “painting is a way of seizing power by giving
form to our terrors as well as to our desires.” Ultimately, in the end,
the goal is transformation and growth, leading me to one irreducible
conclusion: When I get out of the way it happens.
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