Today I wrote a new artist's statement to reflect the recent inclusion of delineated imagery in my work for a show I am participating in. This may be developed, but I am happy with the directness and breadth of it.
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In my recent work I have begun to add delineated images where here to for I have approached my work on a strictly spontaneous basis, spontaneous as in an inner impulse which directs my physical movements. It is an ecstatic state which I court when I work which not only causes automatic movements but will dramatically alter my perception of myself and my environment. The images that come from this are organic and over time I have begun to see the patterns that crystalize within them.
I Introduce delineated imagery into this open pattern with the use stencils and rubbings while still approaching the work in the same way as described above. The intent is for the form to emerge or be integrated in the flow of the pattern around it. The pattern is not the background, rather the forms are the frame which enables a better view of the pattern through a contrast between the two.
The pattern is a result of an ecstatic state while the forms come from intuitive mental imagery. In so I am making an external physical representation of the relation of these two states of being and of the perception that results from each. On a metaphorical level it emulates the cosmological notion of the birth of form from formlessness, which, as with all cosmological ideas, represents both external and internal processes. It is my hope that contemplation upon my work can give one a view into their own inner workings.
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