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Artist Statement - 2011 As an artist I focus on the slippery and complex way visual imagery can ferry a viewer to the edge of an unfamiliar experience. My vision is shaped by the dynamic relationship between our constructed world and the forces of nature, becoming suggestive and expansive as it grows. I extract material sustenance from the existing context, as a plant taps into its soil. I remain open to receive water as multiple types of perspectives and the shared content of all living things. And I maneuver within the constraints of gravity to receive light. A dance of concentration to avoid distractions leading into shadows, reaching instead for the opening of insight. All three things are needed to grow. I use these natural patterns to engage a beautifully knotted-up world full of extreme contradictions and a relentless force of ever-changing circumstances. We all preside together in our shared worldscape - a mutually arising complexity of interwoven systems. Our geological ground is masked by our constructed world, and our constructed world is the backdrop for our improvisation of experimental social movements. I am inspired by the embedded complications in the natural and built worlds, and my art focuses on emergent form. A form arising and existing as a phenomenon of independent parts working together, but not predictable, on the basis of their properties. Through groups of drawings, paintings and image objects, my work aspires to unfold as an experience equal to the persistent desire for a puzzle to come together. |
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