Welcome! I have read blogs for sometime now, but never attempted one of my own. Here is my attempt! I will post artwork, writings, thoughts, statements, and many other things whenever I find the time in this busy life of mine.I have a new exhibit hanging on the walls of Wonderfair Gallery and How! in the basement of the Casbah Market in beautiful downtown Lawrence. The show is entitled In a Sea of Change. Here is my statement about the brand new work:
Imagine a world filled with hope for new beginnings where reflection can heal in a time of change. In the past it has seemed as if this prospect of change could only exist in the imagination. Presently, however, millions of disenchanted citizens have come together to transform a broken world. This change of mind has finally forced a reevaluation of the past onto a 21st century landscape.
In this body of work, I observe the surrounding social and physical landscape to retrieve bits and pieces of its present state. As with any kind of change, there can be the worry for its sustainability. How long can change hold on before it becomes a victim of its lingering past? True change requires innovation, imagination, creativity, optimism, and action, along with the will power of people to transform ideas into reality. With the bad comes the good and with the good comes the bad. In an endless balancing act, one will outweigh the other at times. In these prints I critique the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the wrong and the right, to better understand this balance that continually exists in the world. In my imagination I can always dream of a better world, but to physically see hope in this vast sea of change, gives me assurance that beauty can prevail even when all seems lost.
The work will be exhibited at Wonderfair Gallery, 803 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS 66044 until the end of January. The opening for the show was on Dec. 4th and it was a wonderful event! There will be a closing at the end of the exhibit, but I am unsure of the date at this time. The new work was fun to create but a bit different than what I have done in the past. I think these new prints have opened up some new pathways and directions in my creative process.
In this body of work, I observe the surrounding social and physical landscape to retrieve bits and pieces of its present state. As with any kind of change, there can be the worry for its sustainability. How long can change hold on before it becomes a victim of its lingering past? True change requires innovation, imagination, creativity, optimism, and action, along with the will power of people to transform ideas into reality. With the bad comes the good and with the good comes the bad. In an endless balancing act, one will outweigh the other at times. In these prints I critique the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the wrong and the right, to better understand this balance that continually exists in the world. In my imagination I can always dream of a better world, but to physically see hope in this vast sea of change, gives me assurance that beauty can prevail even when all seems lost.
The work will be exhibited at Wonderfair Gallery, 803 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS 66044 until the end of January. The opening for the show was on Dec. 4th and it was a wonderful event! There will be a closing at the end of the exhibit, but I am unsure of the date at this time. The new work was fun to create but a bit different than what I have done in the past. I think these new prints have opened up some new pathways and directions in my creative process.
