I think I am going to try and write here more regularly. Something about the documentation of the working process and thoughts and environment feel like an important element to my body of work. I just completed an interview for PJAS (Pennsylvania Journal of Arts and Science) speaking to the impact of environment and daily life on an artist’s works. We are all just teabags floating in the ocean of existence. We color the water, and the water moves through us. I cannot understand believing one’s creations, whether musical, visual or linguistic, are not built of the stuff of their life. My body and brain are held hostage by the hormone cascade that skiddles through my cells. I am my chemical makeup. That chemical makeup is affected on the daily by environmental interactions. Fight or Flight. The dopamine cookie. The message is refracted through that prism. Even the gestation of that message is refracted through the prism. Long rainbow shadows across the floor of my mind.
I am curious to see where this blog will meander. I have never been really interested in explaining my technical approach, maybe it's time to investigate? Who knows!
Across January and February, I have work in 7 shows. From Terra Haute, Indiana to Temple University and a whole bunch of spots in Pittsburgh and print in between. Most times, when looking at the actual list of places I am actively showing, I am surprised. Pleasantly so, Imposter Syndrome is real. Be careful out there.