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statement for: earthstewards coalition exhibit

part one.

i aim to erect monuments, construct icons, unveil relics and immortalize the vestiges of an over-stimulated existence.

this absurd contemporary moment solicits images and obsessions created by the ordinary becoming extraordinary. approached with responsibility, the fleeting can evolve to form meaning and illicit purpose beyond any of our expectations. it is the silent pulse of objects reflecting off a viewer that negotiates the essence of time and informs the scope of space.

meditative and surreal, the absurd post-industrial objects i create respond to their disposers in terms of industrial architecture versus nature. it is the overlapping of the two that blurs the point-of-view and inspires this work. by proceeding with concern for the environment and out of respect for our communities, my work reflects the evolution of art with a consciousness of the future. it is this appreciation and redefinition that shifts the meaning of objects — from formal to conceptual — and continues to redevelop the language of art.
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^{untitled, graphite on canvas, 2009 — 64 x 90″}

(on process…)
it is not enough to simply bring the ‘unnecessary’ to a conscious level, the shift must come in action and from the absurd nonsense of the current scene and its lackluster.

use of recycled material as consultant. the sense of iconography based in the absurd. absurdity falls on objects, morals, actions, etc…

concrete reductive art and the sustainability of art making and audience. limits and ability — changes and meaning.