In this this test I changed the paper size to 8.5� x 22�. This is an attept to bring the images closer to the gutter Of the book and allow for image bleed over from one page
This is an old artist statement from a show I was in four or five years ago
The pieces I’ve presented in this exhibition are a selection of works completed between 2006 and 2010. I tried to select pieces that represent the diversity of my interests and provide a fairly complete picture of who I am as an artist. There are several boxes here, some functional others more quixotic. In addition to the utilitarian purposes of boxes I like the idea that a box instantly brings preciousness to its contents. I’m also drawn to the dynamic of the lidded vessels interior volume only being visually accessed when someone physically engages with the piece by removing the lid. The symmetrical coil built vessels are seen as the visual vestiges of meditations. Working rhythmically and thoughtfully with a predetermined system in place for the development of the form I begin each session by selecting a theme to contemplate/pray/wonder about while I’m working. The surface design or drawings on the surface aren’t thought about until the form of the object is completed. The drawings are relatively spontaneous applications of shapes, symbols and doodles that I find visually pleasing and often representative of balance, time and travel. The drawings are laid out in a manner that breaks up the surface in a way I find interesting or curious. I like playing with focal points, texture, line and momentum to create an order and harmony that has a loose and subtle contrapposto feel to it. The asymmetrical vessels and forms are nothing but fun and improvisation. I design these pieces as I go. The music is usually turned up pretty loud and if nobody else is in the studio there may even be a little spontaneous dance party. These forms are all about the “what if’s”, what if I had the piece do this, what if the work did that, maybe it should go off in this direction…… I only think ahead a few inches and make it up as I go along. Frequently things that happen in these works show up in later pieces in a more thoughtful and conscious manner. “Home is……” is one of only a couple of interactive small scale installation works I’ve done but there are ideas and plans for many more. Similar to my enjoyment of boxes with lids that beg for touch and interaction these works require some level of physical participation from the audience. In Home is, I intend the stacks of bowls to be handled, stacked, restacked, read and talked about. I want people to be touched one instance and disturbed the next, I want people to be reminded of “the other”, to be grateful, to be hopeful.
Book List “Six names of beauty” by: Crispin Sartwell “Rethinking art history” by:Donald Preziosi “A painters life” by: K.B. Dixon “Illuminations” by: Walter Benjamin “Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism”By Fredric Jameson A New Earth” by: Eckart Tolle “If You Meet The Buddha On The Street Kill Him” by: Sheldon Kopp “The Wise Heart” by: Jack Koonfield “Berger on Drawing” by: John Berger “Ghost at the Table” by: Susanne Berne “Thanks, How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier” by: Robert Emmonds “A Defence of Poetry” by: Percy Shelly “High Bottom Drunk” by: Charles Roper “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden” “The Burning Plain: and other Stories” by: Juan Rulfo