Creating Art is the most sincere human endeavor. It allows one to reach deep into oneself and refine who they are within their cultural environment. Art is creation and creation is the essence of nature. Nature is my external source of inspiration. The beauty of procreation and the savagery of consumption is a polar extreme in nature. These contrary concepts are inextricably bound together and form the fundamental relationships and rivalries between organisms. The greatest source of my internal artistic inspiration is the subconscious. My hidden, innermost, latent energy reifies apparitions and archetypes. The subconscious doesn't allow choice. It is automatic. Thereafter, my conscious struggles to make these images more definable for the viewer. I think choices in the process of art occur before or after the true indefinable moment of art. Art is that inexplicable moment of doubt, indefiniteness, enigma, and obscurity that reveals itself to someone transcribing it to share with others.
I seek to create artwork that attracts and repeals simultaneously. Something that draws a person in, but keeps them unnerved. This parallels the polarity of nature. Beauty juxtaposed with savagery. I seek artists who combine oppositions to create emotionally stirring works. These works create anxiety or tension, but simultaneously arouse feelings of pleasure.
A project is going well when I lose awareness of everything around me. Something in nature has touched me and it has melded with me as the artwork emerges. I often don't know what I'm doing, I'm just doing it and something is radiating within. I know the piece is finished when I return to it and it instantly recreates that sensation without further action. I also know that I won't feel it again and can only hope it will happen within another.
Art, in whatever media, is something that changes me. I am not the same person I was before I experienced it. This is an open definition. Anyone can decide what art is for themselves by what alters their thoughts, feelings, being . . .
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