new Statement

My Artistic Mythology

In search for my place in the world, I have tended to see the cosmos through images and ideas and not words. in this I have also come to realize that every artistic medium is as valid as the next. This has had its advantages and disadvantages and forced me to make decisions that test my convictions, not only to the artistic process, but to an aesthetic philosophy as well. I have evolved a great deal over the last couple of years from a closet doodler into a creature that wants the world to see and experience my thoughts, ideas, and art. The acquisition of material at times has been a distinct hurdle that I have had to overcome, but the ideas and art have seen the light and now they must be exposed to the world. In response to this reality the way of the scavenger has had a great amount of influence on my artistic development. the quest to find paper, ink, paint, ready made objects, or any thing I can get my hands on just short of thievery so my art could come into existence has been a unique challenge. This relationship between the philosophical and aesthetical approaches has not just affected the process of assembling the work but the works concepts as well. My work is now a series of conglomerations of ideas and biographical forms that record my life’s journeys. These journeys have become personal mythologies of sorts. They have become objects that have the randomness of journal entries or sketchbook pages with their sense of chaotic compilations and random thoughts, with the so-called dependability of truth that exists in sea stories. They are flat and have depth; they are painting and sculpture, ideas and dreams. Knowing this, and embracing these truths, I seek to tell my mythologies through the objects and ideas that I have found, manipulated, created and modified, all to tell my side of the story in a visual manner. The works are stories and fables that are sometimes superficial and obvious, and then sometimes hidden, but all meant to introduce myself to the universe and in some ways attempt to become part of the universe. My goal with these works is to reveal the ideas that have gone in to the creation of the being that I have become, am becoming, and will become.