Where is the integrity? I find many artists compromising technical ability for loose concepts that nobody can grasp. Here you will find direction and here you will find desire. I believe that art should keep technical integrity while incorporating challenging issues that press mankind through the ages using modern conceptualism and sybolism. I strive to find a universal language that can be appreciated among any on some level - whether it be for its philosophical point of view, its subject matter, or simply its aesthetic value.
I make all my own canvases and my work is not projected! Painters should not project photographs to trace in order to produce quickly. Something is lost in the transcription even though they tend to look more realistic. “Copying” or “tracing” just makes art more of a consumer product rather than reaching for the spirit and nature creation through process. Many artists focus their lives on the importance of process while the “projectors” are racing to make the next quick buck. Here you will find patience and a love/hate relationship with my passion. Art should have struggle, just as life.
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I found an old statement
I searched my name in google today and found this old statement I had posted for the PBS website regarding a great broadcast called ART:21. If you can find it, check it out. It is an introduction into a few of today’s various artist within a broad spectrum of what is considered to be art.
“Art in its simplest form is a discipline of one’s own creativity. Technique, content, and every other aspect of art is simply that, an aspect of art. Art can not be limited to what is acceptable and what is not. One of the truly great sides of art is the differences between the artists work and the people who ask, “what is art”. It develops and challenges thinking. Whether an artist works conceptually, traditionally or anything in-between (or outside of), intention is one of the purest forms of art. Some artists use intention only as a stepping stone towards their goal, some believe that intention is the purest form of art because that is where the creative process may be derived from, while others may go as far as to have no intentions but rather keep creating. I have come to the point that it does not matter, it is all about taste. I do not believe in any limitations of what can be art, I just enjoy others creativity. From Caravaggio to Hirst to pictures drawn by two year olds…”