Chronicles on Native Soil
The images Group Therapy, Personal Space and 480 Square Feet on Hold are an invitation into enigmatic worlds, perhaps with familiar surroundings, though conceivably just environmental façades of characters and objects. You may have witnessed or even experienced these types of domains before, evoking responses which played out in real time, and possibly still are with renewed clarity. The scenes portray a time when ideas expired in place, without redemption and choices were abundant, but out of reach. Contentions existed with unfamiliar people who shared a partisan objective, and the phrase “take a number”, was acceptable, as no one else was around.
The images once served a singular purpose, though now offer a renewal option with foreshadowing metaphors, often unconsciously embedded into the creating process, becoming symbolic time capsules for future generations to ponder. Perhaps some insights into life’s mysteries will be unveiled, guided by personal experience lying dormant will awake, triggering current nomenclatures to lay the groundwork for a remodeled lifestyle where human nature displays itself.
Artist Epilogue-This body of work portrays a compilation of personal observations and manifestations about one’s convictions and their influences on new experiences, in the context of how they are reinforced by new events, influenced by perceptional change and then reevaluated over time.
The mixed-media pieces serve as the groundwork for these conversant and reoccurring-thematic observations. Utilizing manufactured and metaphorical symbols from organic and functional materials, these assemblages corroborate with photographs, both functioning as serendipitous documentations and filtered interpretations about the significance of lifelong lessons.
The approach to making collaborative pieces supports the inherent passion to create intuitive and expeditious imagery, along with a fastidious and sustained building process, which aligns with an innate quest for a balanced environment for both artistic and personal endeavors.
All pieces were created from materials predominately found on my surrounding property, including objects of interest discovered in other locations throughout Florida. The pieces were fabricated, assembled, and photographed in my studio in Lutz, Florida.