Bridge

Concept

Relating broadly to common events in life, primarily through visual and written abstraction, has been my intent during the last six years. I work in nearly all common painting media, other media unique to my practice, several types of printmaking, sculpture, collage, found object, assemblage, digital art, design, and also poetry as a supplemental but explanatory endeavor.
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I have tried to specifically relay the most useful tool that I know in adult life, both for my own well being and as I see in people who I commonly look up to; the ability to use reason and logic to maintain some sort of graciousness, peace, or objective perspective through which to view life in general. Most of the artwork that I have made relates to such a view in that I make visual art and poetry in the same mind state of thankfulness and peace, choosing shapes, words, colors, and making marks that might describe what I had seen, smelled, heard, tasted, or felt at any point in my life experience. The reason I refer to peace alongside objectivity and logic is that most people are not capable of using reason while in emotional unrest.
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Describing events, memories, and imaginations in terms of relative or semi-abstraction is something like visualizing the shapes of sounds or seeing feelings. The process of converting and translating that which exists as intangible and nonreplicable electric impulses in a single human consciousness, might shed light on various existential and other broad philosophical questions, as addressed in the artwork and writings you see here.