Where to start, having never blogged before...Ihe purpose for this blog is to document my own artistic practice. I am not doing this for the benefit of an audience and have no expectations about gaining any 'followers' for I am no messiah no better or worse than any of you. I am merely an ant just like the rest of you all; contorted within the confines of my own mind and limited physically by my body’s constraints - a body inside a waiting room, a spirit ever flowing and colliding with all that the universe contains.
To the point, so far this year seems to be focused on discovering who you are within your own artistic practice. A pretty hard question to answer really considering my own practices is so multi dimensional. Also I have never cared for the answer, so avoided the question completely but the time is now upon me to start unravelling the mystery.
Looking back at the body of work I have produced during my first year within the 'institution', I have so far become aware of a few emerging themes. I seem to produce interactive pieces, some more obvious some more subtle. I believe this may be due to the way I view the art world and how I consider work exhibited within gallery spaces. It is my belief that the work appears as though it has been placed upon a pedestal, distanced from its audience, almost assumed sacred. It’s those falsified boarders and barriers, which create for me a sense of inaccessibility, which is something I strongly dislike. I feel that to engage an audience/ viewer they need to be involved within the process to some degree, which also is inclusive of the final piece whether this be as simple as how they view the piece... role out the red carpet to catch the pretentious dribble.
Another emerging theme appears to be space itself; maybe this has come about due to my dislike for the above, the imaginary boarders and boundaries which are forced upon us, which we create? Is division in life really the key, segregation to me seems to create more problems in life than that which it solves. I also have an appreciation for the limitlessness of 'space' itself... the multi dimensional states that exist around us, physically, emotionally and also in regards to the landscapes of our own minds and imaginations.
I hope during this year to combine the work I produce privately with the work I am producing within the studio, I feel this gap needs to be bridged. My private work is indefinitely focused upon an imaginative reality involving a strong linear theme. They appear natural in style merging together ideas of growth, the universe and interconnections (links) creating psychedelic illusions. I would say to some extent that the bulk of the work I privately create is multi-layered in the sense that as a viewer you need to see the pieces individually, you need to look and look closely as a multitude of sins can easily be missed if you blink...
Right I am off now to live my life, peaz and love x
