Artist's Statements

Artist's Statements.

Yes, I have one. Yes, I followed the highly suggested rules and no, I didn't want to.

But it is there. For all to say 'Huh?', maybe chuckle at or ignore.

Here, so I can get this out of the way, is my Artist Statement...

My artistic quest for exposure and acceptance is fueled by desire, emotion and effort. In this quest, I have come to rely on two forms of inspiration. The first being thought forms, or mental images. The thoughts and images produced by the subconscious world of daydreams, reveries or perhaps intentionally entering a theta brainwave state. The second form is daily visual experiences. These outward experiences can range from a color scheme jumping out at me, seeing a reflection in glass, to noticing an interesting arrangement of items.

With most of my art being experimental, I have found that my ideas and artistic concepts progress naturally by not letting myself get caught up in the conventions of failure and success. I believe the purpose of art is to capture ones attention. In pursuing this as a goal, I believe that my purpose in creating art is to release my intention, allowing things I didn't know were possible to come to existence.

...fabricated, pretentious and preposterous. OK, maybe it is not that bad. But I would like to point out a couple of things.

1) The required sources of inspiration: Like anyone else, I'm rarely inspired by anything. Someone's art does inspire me occasionally, and I will say to myself 'I wish that I had done that', but I don't start making art like it, that would be copying. If I had to rely on inspiration, I would never create any art. I read a great Chuck Close quote recently - 'Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.'. I have a recurring dream, where I am looking for some really creative art that I made, no doubt, the most creative art in the universe. Despite looking through all of my cabinets, closets and piles of stuff, I never find it in the dream, but I know that if I do, I will be really creative forever and be able to make the art that I want to. I'll just work in the meantime. There are quite a few formulas representing the creative process, my formula is... Desire + Effort + Trust = Success.

2) The required response to the question - Why I make art: To entertain myself, but no one wants to hear that. People want to think that for some wonderful reason that they have to hear, that I am making art for them and the rest of the world. Not so. Once I am satisfied with a piece of new art, I usually do choose to present it to the world, and if it ends up on a gallery wall, or is accepted into a juried exhibition, or someone decides that they want to own it, then I feel good. And, as a result of my efforts, I am fortunate to feel good a lot.

Now for some fun. Years ago, a friend emailed me a link to a random bluegrass band name generator web site. Click and names such as 'The Kentucky Outhouse Boys' and '5 String Bloodhound' would be generated. How about a random artist statement generator? Used to death cliches like 'Through a contrived process', 'Created naturally through inspiration' and 'Captured spontaneously' could be combined with phrases such as 'Multi-dimensional phenomenon' and ' Essence of the unconscious being'. Classic artist statements such as follows could be produced just by clicking...

Art for me produces feelings of intense desires to create art of desirable artistic intensities. Not only do I feel intense when desiring to feel desirable artistically, I intensely desire to feel artistic at times I am not desirable.

Moving forward without the past in mind, I strive to keep past artistic movements as future considerations for inspirational art. That is to say, future artistic movements may be based on past considerations for artistic inspiration without consideration for the future. Considering past inspirational artistic movements based on the future is what truly inspires my art.