I am almost constantly thinking about form, and I try to bring these forms into existence through my art. The problem is that these imagined forms do not seem to exist visually, or at least I cannot directly grasp them as such. They seem to exist more as feelings, as sensations of movement, poise, posture, growth, and decay. I try often to sketch them. Usually the sketch amounts to nothing, but occasionally I receive a glimmer of the original feeling when looking at the sketch. It is those rare fragments that I begin to explore.
I find that sketches are capable of lying. Their built-in vagueness, their “sketchy” quality, leaves too much room for the imagination to fill in, or seem to find, what in reality is not there, much the way the mind fills in the blanks between the still frames of a movie and interprets the flow of discrete images as continuous motion. 3D forms, on the other hand, are rarely capable of lying. Once I translate the sketch into concrete form, I typically find that I have created something other than a simple materialization of the original concept, and occasionally something more.
What results is a work reflective of my entire being, a work of compromise if you will, between both hemispheres of my brain. These are pieces founded in pure abstract concept, but brought into material existence through interplay with intellect.
These works are the result of this constant striving. They approach my idealized conceptual forms with varying degrees of accuracy, but as yet none have entirely reached this goal. Perhaps this goal is asymptotic, or perhaps it does not really exist at all. Perhaps the supposed forms in my head that I experience as feelings are, in actuality, nothing more than feelings after all. The Japanese might call this “unknowability” yugen, literally meaning “cloudy impenetrability”. Or, as Alice said of the Jabberwocky, “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are.”
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I find that sketches are capable of lying. Their built-in vagueness, their “sketchy” quality, leaves too much room for the imagination to fill in, or seem to find, what in reality is not there, much the way the mind fills in the blanks between the still frames of a movie and interprets the flow of discrete images as continuous motion. 3D forms, on the other hand, are rarely capable of lying. Once I translate the sketch into concrete form, I typically find that I have created something other than a simple materialization of the original concept, and occasionally something more.
What results is a work reflective of my entire being, a work of compromise if you will, between both hemispheres of my brain. These are pieces founded in pure abstract concept, but brought into material existence through interplay with intellect.
These works are the result of this constant striving. They approach my idealized conceptual forms with varying degrees of accuracy, but as yet none have entirely reached this goal. Perhaps this goal is asymptotic, or perhaps it does not really exist at all. Perhaps the supposed forms in my head that I experience as feelings are, in actuality, nothing more than feelings after all. The Japanese might call this “unknowability” yugen, literally meaning “cloudy impenetrability”. Or, as Alice said of the Jabberwocky, “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are.”
Click here for my exhibition list.
Click here for a list of galleries and shops carrying my work.