The placement of the artist in his work is a resultant of the dissolution of one’s self in an instinctual reaction to the need to cope with the destructive era in which he resides. Entering the realm of sculpture as expanded media, literary, historical, or material cultural research and writing take the place sketching. Their place in his documented performances, installations, or projects is then superseded by intuitive and expressive making with uncertainty. The sculptural consequence is an honest outlet for the self, however many times it might be fragmented into personas in or reminiscently from the nineteenth century.
The era of the American Civil War is fled to for its intraviolence that seems no different from that invading the one’s social and personal conscience today. Thereby choosing ‘flight’ over ‘fight,’ the artist circumnavigates his intended contemporary subject by inventing an historically precedential narrative in a bygone time less immediately and forcefully, yet still quietly and ever more intimately timely. Projects’ climaxes have been introspective investigations of the identity and how it relates to others in the 21st century through an escapist’s lens. They aim to share this realization with a collective that will join, experience, care for, or at the very least observe the absconding of the artist and, simultaneously, the personas he has crafted.
A civil war can, by definition, emerge between any two previously unified entities. If today’s identity is so internally conflicted, what are we running from?
The era of the American Civil War is fled to for its intraviolence that seems no different from that invading the one’s social and personal conscience today. Thereby choosing ‘flight’ over ‘fight,’ the artist circumnavigates his intended contemporary subject by inventing an historically precedential narrative in a bygone time less immediately and forcefully, yet still quietly and ever more intimately timely. Projects’ climaxes have been introspective investigations of the identity and how it relates to others in the 21st century through an escapist’s lens. They aim to share this realization with a collective that will join, experience, care for, or at the very least observe the absconding of the artist and, simultaneously, the personas he has crafted.
A civil war can, by definition, emerge between any two previously unified entities. If today’s identity is so internally conflicted, what are we running from?
