dead flowers
I let the natural sate of mental imperfection guide the course of my paintings.
I work off of a complex yet shallowly spaced still life consisting of dead flowers, broken mirrors, bottles, chunks of glass, and a few rocks. The elements are organized on a see through shelving unit in such a way that there is a pleasurable array of shapes amongst and in between the objects. I’m concerned with the identification of shapes, not objective identification. With any movement of my head or body the shapes that I see loose their identity. Bouncing around the surface of the painting, I record shapes I see in relation to each other, each one influencing the next. It is inevitable that they fall out of proportion, there in lies the process of transformation.
My greatest inspirations as a visual artist are my experiences in nature. It is here, along everyday walks, where I find human characteristics in small plant life such as twigs, dead leaves, or dried flowers. I find reflections of my temperament and state of being in a world that is often overlooked. My life’s choices, and the nature of our social structure, are the causes which have lead me to look close within the inner workings of natural world to find connection.
This beingness that I find in nature I now seek to create through my art by changing the edges of observed space. It is a process of intuitively moving through concrete information and drifting into abstraction. There is little which can compare to the sensation of allowing yourself to transform directly what is in front of you into an amazing and unknown world. I hope that the finished compositions may be able to deliver a similar experience to interested viewers.
Tags: aesthetics, art, painting, perception, transformation