Artist Statement

I just finished up an application today and realized that I haven't written an artist statement about my work as an artist (as opposed to about a specific project) in probably two years. It was exciting. I love that writing makes you realize things about yourself that, in fact, are so easy to put into words, and only a few ones at that. All the things floating about your head easily converge and connect into a brief statement. Love it:

Although I work in many disciplines, I feel my greatest skill and greatest enjoyment is in making connections. In accordance with that facility, I feel right calling myself a collage or assemblage artist. I work in a way that feels almost scientific, striving for simplicity though my connections, looking for an artistic “Theory of Everything” (modest goals, I know). I am adamant that subject informs the medium chosen for a specific project or part of a project, and so I tend to work within multiple media. I take disparate clusters of knowledge, experience, or material that I have accumulated—usually from a variety of genres and media—and work them, over time, into a cohesive whole. To me, this is progress and, to me, progress is happiness. Seeing as, to me, happiness is the ultimate goal of life, I am consistently working on making connections and making progress. Since I also believe that art needs to continue being avant-garde (the advance guard, the front line) alongside philosophy, and needs to continue leading the world’s mental and emotional progress, I feel comfortable knowing that my striving works within that ideal as well.

My work tends to explore the concept of happiness and the effects of happiness, and I at all times hope for it to beget happiness in my viewers. I am interested in the intelligence of a room versus an individual and, so, what the possibility of collaboration and “community” can hold. I hope that working collaboratively works hand in hand with my interest of working as a collage artist, and makes connections between people’s ideas. I am interested in physical and process-based research, as well as the physical manifestation of philosophical ideals.

Go artist statement :)