“The process of making art is just as important, if not more so than the finished product.”
Paul Klee
My artistic interests have always been centered in the early 1900’s, where art, and the process of creating it, was changing at light speed across the world. The works from this time have always captivated me, but the artists are even more enthralling. The world was advancing, and everything was being documented so that artistic knowledge could be celebrated, shared, and debated. Nothing was set in stone and artists were able to explore all the different avenues that new media opened up for them. I believe that the works from this time display more of the artists souls and thought processes than any other time in art history; that the techniques individuals practiced, or discussed, most frequently are the essences of their psyches in visual form.
My work explores the unconscious mental processes and activities performed by my brain when viewing an object or image, similar to the image association concept of the Rorschach test. I am interested in exploring the associations that my brain makes when faced with a concept, and capturing these affiliations in a visual form. With a focus on experimental and process-based techniques, the fields of print media and drawing are my predominate working mediums, with my work often extending to incorporate a three-dimensional aspect in its final form. Much of my work explores the interrelation between the natural and the industrial worlds through the correlation of elements of form perceived by the psyche during the process of completion. When creating works the final form of the product is not what interests me. Rather it is the evolution process that the original concept goes through, how the final form comes about, and that forms dependence on the processes used to create it.
My work explores the unconscious mental processes and activities performed by my brain when viewing an object or image, similar to the image association concept of the Rorschach test. I am interested in exploring the associations that my brain makes when faced with a concept, and capturing these affiliations in a visual form. With a focus on experimental and process-based techniques, the fields of print media and drawing are my predominate working mediums, with my work often extending to incorporate a three-dimensional aspect in its final form. Much of my work explores the interrelation between the natural and the industrial worlds through the correlation of elements of form perceived by the psyche during the process of completion. When creating works the final form of the product is not what interests me. Rather it is the evolution process that the original concept goes through, how the final form comes about, and that forms dependence on the processes used to create it.