artist's statement
"A work of art has no importance whatsoever to society. It is only important to the individual."
Vladimir Nabokov
"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal."
Egon Schiele
When moving into my first apartment, I looked at the mostly bare walls and shelves and decided what kind of designs I wanted to surround myself with, so I bought a large easel and some canvases. My painting career got started with some crude otherworldly ideas and a desire to fill up empty space.
That's all art is. Whether it's on a wall, table or billboard, whether it's listened to through headphones, read on a page, or acted out on a stage or field with opposing players, art fills up the space in our lives; everyone defines it differently. Our human brain always seeks fulfillment of desires, and the expression of these passions is art. Fundamentally, there is nothing special about art or the artist. As humans, it's what we do.
The Age of Aquarius begins at a different time for everyone, for some at the moment of birth and others at the moment of death. In the middle of life it can be a turbulent transition when our conscience rages at the erosion of the truth as society becomes more complex. By turning off the loud noise of violence and fear in this world, the collective wisdom of our age can enter us. Our bodies evolve and coincidence evaporates.
My work reflects this supernatural transformation by blending biology with technology to create and replicate the images. All paintings feature gallery wrapped canvas on lightweight stretchers and are designed to hang without a frame.
Art accelerates us into cosmic beings, it's the only proof of the existence of everything we have the capacity to dream up. As we speed faster and faster toward the singularity, our culture caves in on itself and we look for originality, ultimately realizing that everything is a sequel. We behave like equations, complex recipes made over and over again. My theme is a universal rejection of fiction; if we can imagine it, it has happened. Prehistoric creations evolve and devolve alongside futuristic ones and are versioned like software, with no beginning and no end.
Apollo1
January 2010
