My artwork has been inspired by various aspects of nature. The indigenous rhythms, and the intrinsic flow of processes in the natural world are the underlying currents in my imagery. In some of the images social landscapes are constructed with natural elements of leaves and flower petals. This is a direct mapping of natural processes onto everyday behaviors, a transfer of the behavior of nature into our everyday lives. The insights of nature are ignored as we work constantly, expecting ourselves to be productive and "right-on" 99 percent of the time. We rarely provide ourselves with "down-time" void of deadlines or demands. Energy is always flowing outward, with little or no accommodation for regeneration. Nature, on the other hand, builds in "down-time". In much of nature we can find periods of hibernation and incubation before periods of flourish or blooming. In nature there are periodic quiet times used for regeneration. This process, inherent in my artwork, is a valuable model for the way in which one lives their life.
My images embody the lyrical tensions of the "everydayfamily". The struggles of forming families, and the challenges of raising children create undulating, uneven and sometimes erratic rhythms. The intent of these images projects volatile family landscapes in which the "everydayfamily" is reforming, and embracing alternative constructs. These images confront societal hindrances of choosing one's own family construct. This issue compounds with the political and economic obstructions to raising children in America.
These current images exhibited at The Williams Gallery web site, saddle the power of turbulent water. The traditional patterns of the family socialscape are fractured into multipatterns. Through the turbulence, the symmetry is breaking. The light of the images projected through the computer screen creates a vibration, a dynamism, an aliveness in the images. The electronic image is a cosmos. In the past, the display screen has been an intermediate stage in the development of this artwork. With these images, I have created a universe into which the viewer peers. Each image on the screen is analogous to the keyhole through which Alice gazed in wonder. The universe unfolds as the viewer progresses from one keyhole to the next.
Soft / Hardware:
In creating these images, I work with Amazon Paint Software by Interactive Effects, on a Silicon Graphics Indy Computer with a Wacom Graphics Tablet.
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