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My artworks are both
visual and conceptual in nature. I like to look. I like
to think. My works are visual manifestation of thought combinations,
both external and internal in origin. The external is made
up of things I have observed, discovered, or learned. The
internal is introspective; dealing with feeling, emotion,
and personal interpretation.
I like making drawn marks: meaningful and
at times meaningless, both related visually within the arena
of the drawn or printed composition. I enjoy the formal
aspects of drawing; making marks on the stone, plate or
on the paper, and the visual and tactile nature of that
drawing activity. I immerse myself in reinventing my own
sense of order each time I compose a print or drawing. I
use representational images in my abstractions, and I believe
representation and abstraction to be different aspects of
my same image making process.
In my lithograph titled "Give and Take"
a form is plucked from its logical context and given to
an unrelated image that has a completely different picture
sense to it. For me, this trade arouses issues of logic/illogic,
sense/nonsense, interpretation/misinterpretation, placement/displacement;
all of which are at the core of my current interest and
occupy my thinking.
I have come to realize that my artworks simultaneously
compare and contrast representation with abstraction. I
re invent the world. I take things apart and then re create
them in my own language; opening up the world to new possibilities
enabling myself to see something that was not there before,
or not realized.
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