Chicago, 1981 I like music, art, and skateboarding, they get me through the day.
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My art focuses on translation – my view or perception of something I hear, see or experience. There is an emphasis on fusion: Individuals with machinery melded to their bodies; hybrids of man and nature. Some figures seem possessed by cryptic diseases or forces; others seem to emerge from the past, covered in rust from another era. The art usually portrays a struggle, but is not always clear cut against whom or what. I play with multiples to add unity, the way a group of birds can become a flock, a collective, many things becoming a whole.
My inspiration comes from a wide variety of media and culture. Music is a huge influence, especially the nature of a good live show and the spontaneity. The changes occurring throughout a song are very important to me in the creation of art. From my youth, videogames of the late 80s and early 90s, comic books, and cartoon shows carry weight as well through their imagery. From art itself, the stylized renderings of ancient cultures such as the Aztecs and the Egyptians, the patterning and skewed perception of Escher, and the fusion of nature and machine of Geiger affect my techniques.
To capture reality is boring to me; I would rather mess with it a little. |