What I make and how I make it and Why I Make the Art That I do
I use my drawing, painting and photography in conventional ways for one part of my artistic work processes.
Additionally, I employ self-designed software to create imagery which I fragment, break up, reconstruct and reflect into art pieces, using new work, or sometimes using already created pieces. I basically work within shapes that contain invented and discovered bits of reality from nature and throw away items. I use a stream of consciousness thought process to create what I call “reflections” as I draw and design.
Mining the vision, ideas and inspiration of what I do involves looking at unfinished yet-to-be-told stories in my life. I love mystery, the subliminal, the understated, the mist, the fog, clear starry nights, snow and things that are thrown away, discarded and ignored.
My faith, curiosity, and imagination lead me to search for hidden meanings, for subliminal images, “reading the cloud”, “finding the frost”, “clarifying the creek”. I am a “junk collector” and always ask myself, “How could I use that?” “What’s hiding within that image?”
Natural forms, chains and locks, tomb stones, shrines, obelisks, folded metal, barbed wire, bread clips, paper clips, bolts, nails, rubber stamps, Xs, crosses and rubbings make up my artistic meal. The ignored, disposable, and waste are the desserts. An explorer of the world of imagery, both real and imagined, I am compelled to travel a visual path on a continuing journey.
My art works are vehicles for me to use in my search for meaning, thought and story. Often, I am fascinated with reflection, both as in a mirror and as in ruminations. My hope is that my work will be seen as maize, a puzzle, a visual journey, a thought provoking statement, or as a subliminal question.
Strong influences include M.C. Escher, Harold Towne, Gordon Smith, Bob Steele and Aboriginal Artists and several thousands of great art students!