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In the last hundred years, a lot has been
taken away from artists.
Cezanne
took away the picture plane, Monet took away the focus, Picasso and
Braques took away the moment in time, Kandinsky and Klee took away the
subject matter and Pollack took away the brush stroke.
Warhol
took away the seriousness.
Installationists
took away the paint.
So, in a
wonderful way – all the rules are gone and the artist is free to see
and express. . . whatever.
The
century of violence has come to an end and the millennium of
connection and rule-bending is off with a quantum leap.
Matter has
dissolved into energy and we are left with:
Pop culture and supermodels?
UGH.
What
interests me:
messing
around
a flower becoming compost,
broken plates,
crooked teeth,
fleshy body parts,
could a pop star be ugly?
what they eat on the other side of the world,
the imperfect and the natural
.
My digital
collages represent these phenomena – the juxtaposition of the real and imperfect, and the
created.
The
reality about what we see every day is that randomness and chaos have
an innate and beautiful truth.
And
that the super-composed, blemish-free, air-brushed image with which we
are bombarded from all directions has lost its interest.
And
now that we’ve reclaimed the subject, the brushstroke, the focus,
the moment in time and the paint, we can enjoy the chaotic, imperfect,
and unedited image.
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Chat
with cool people
A Native American
Radio station
The town
in France where I went to the Ecole de Beaux Arts
Go to this
website
type in some words in English, select the translation you
get and reverse translate them back into English - this is really fun!
Take
a Chinese
painting lesson
Look at a
live satellite picture of the Earth
(helps keep your perspective)
more
links
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