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I am coming to see that the real direction of my work is simply about man trapped in nature and all that implies.
The Much Hated Artist Statement
I am a visual artist and I really don't like having to taint my work with self-serving verbiage. I feel much of my work is of a hermetic nature and that my descriptions will only serve to limit it's meaning. Every element in my paintings has a meaning to me but I don't believe the ultimate value is tied to what I think but rather to what u see. If this is but a masturbatory exercise then so be it. I believe in Poetry, Surrealism, Modernism and Existentialism (not cool). In the coming weeks I will be adding to this statement mostly in the form of quotes.
My work tries to create as wide a berth as possible for both figurative work and the abstract. If only a few pieces are viewed it can look quite disjointed but I think a full compliment of my paintings does show a unity of purpose. Some of my major themes are history as a Hegelian life force, the line between being and not being, disease, material and non-material, modernism, and such religious concepts as the fallen nature of man. I speak in symbols and like Yeats I find it the only way to get close to truth. But I am far too jaded and ironic to be able to state what my work is really about.
My work tries to create as wide a berth as possible for both figurative work and the abstract. If only a few pieces are viewed it can look quite disjointed but I think a full compliment of my paintings does show a unity of purpose. Some of my major themes are history as a Hegelian life force, the line between being and not being, disease, material and non-material, modernism, and such religious concepts as the fallen nature of man. I speak in symbols and like Yeats I find it the only way to get close to truth. But I am far too jaded and ironic to be able to state what my work is really about.
From de Kooning
_"I'm not interested in 'abstracting'
or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line and
color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more and more
things in - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about
space."
Melville on Milton
_"He who thinks for himself can never remain of the same mind"