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Exhausted, Fresh & Curious: an Artist's Statement We live in a state of pluralism. There is no simple, given ground to stand on within a steady barrage of information exchange. Belief systems must be redefined and improvised constantly as meaning shifts all around us. This contemporary reality leads me to make work that forms its own ground out of necessity. My process is contemplative and deliberate, composed to disrupt the traps that quick production often stumbles upon in its collusion with speed. The passage of time allows for the accumulation of hidden connections and reflection on ideas that are born of complicated times. As a ground builds up into a field of intensity, an image can emerge to contain this complexity, the memory of history, and the speculative gravity of the future. Evoking the idea of "container" establishes the physicality of the image object as a receptacle for a crowding of ideas. I believe art is a beautiful and active process that confirms rather than contests the temporality of ourselves and our worldscape. What we make inevitably falls apart, and yet we continuously try to put things back together again. And that is where my work begins, in an attempt to put things back together, to couple the exhausted with the fresh and the ever curious. |
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