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My work explores the intersection of chance and intentionality. Art has always drawn from both, but technology has altered the mix in ways that artists of the past never could have imagined. Instant and graphic dissemination of information via social media, ease of travel, automation, cheap print and packaging materials, and an advertising-stoked penchant for instant gratification have resulted in a disjointed busyness that teases our senses and overloads our brains. Our rapidly changing world provides color, movement, changing focal points and priorities, beauty, sadness…and much fodder for art.
When we walk outside, we look from bus to bird to shop to tree to child to cloud, trying to drink it all in, seeing nothing and everything. I have learned to deal with sensory overload by embracing the fragmentary. I honor the small, the ruined, the disposed of, the overlooked. A lifetime of experimentation and an acceptance of my weaknesses have brought me to the unexpected truth that distractibility can lead to discovery. In focusing on the “trees,” I often surprise myself by finding a “forest.”
When we walk outside, we look from bus to bird to shop to tree to child to cloud, trying to drink it all in, seeing nothing and everything. I have learned to deal with sensory overload by embracing the fragmentary. I honor the small, the ruined, the disposed of, the overlooked. A lifetime of experimentation and an acceptance of my weaknesses have brought me to the unexpected truth that distractibility can lead to discovery. In focusing on the “trees,” I often surprise myself by finding a “forest.”