My Approach
To make art.
...what is art?
I use the *archaic definition of art as a form of the verb to be, as in to exist or live. By dissolving the distinction between life and art I breathe life back into my art. This is what I practice with the following agenda to guide the making process.
Challenge my current thoughts and ideas;
Sharpen my practice;
Validate my labour;
Share ideas, findings, and creativity;
Reconcile purpose and motive;
Balance intellect and intuition;
Envisage the present;
Disrupt the status quos;
Engage in networks, communities, collaborations, and democracy;
Value family, friends, community, and nature;
Know how it is possible for history to change;
Appreciate opposable thumbs, body, life, vision, touch, silence, noise, and the smell and feel of soil;
Communicate ideas, emotions, sensations, meaning, understanding, and moments of admiration, amazement, and awe;
Make objects, noise, movements, change, hypotheses, theories, relationships, and sense;
Study ideas of embodiment, my sameness, my uniqueness, my singularity, my part in a shared presence, collective consciousness, personal perspective, perception, being perceived, bodily movement, the role of bodily functions in thought, outer-body experience, the connection of body and mind, consciousness, communication, sensation, the desire to reach out to other beings, concepts of creativity, expressions of existence;
Question any hierarchy of beings, the role of artist, labour, labels and -isms, voice, objects, subjects, objectiveness, subjectiveness, objectification, subjectification, the existence of autonomy, independence, interdependence, the greater good, the role of the individual, freedom, current modes of intellectual property rights, monetary exchange systems, exchanges of labour, trade, current methods of globalization, distribution channels, markets, mass communication, contemporary culture, classification and the value of time;
Understand my place on Earth, the residue of physical place left on people, memory, my position in a democratic-capitalist society, my role as global citizen, the role of humans, relationships with people and the environment;
Discover through colour, form, line, texture, shape, sound, rhythm, rhyme, time, space, tools, movement, techniques, language, materials, design, craft, art, science, abstraction, reductionism, replication, philosophy, phenomenology, psychology, evolution, creation, spirit, history, current affairs, nature, dialogue and intuition;
*Modern Language Association (MLA): "art." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 24 Jun. 2010. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/art>.
My Agenda
Challenge my current thoughts and ideas;
Sharpen my practice;
Validate my labour;
Share ideas, findings, and creativity;
Reconcile purpose and motive;
Balance intellect and intuition;
Envisage the present;
Disrupt the status quos;
Engage in networks, communities, collaborations, and democracy;
Value family, friends, community, and nature;
Know how it is possible for history to change;
Appreciate opposable thumbs, body, life, vision, touch, silence, noise, and the smell and feel of soil;
Communicate ideas, emotions, sensations, meaning, understanding, and moments of admiration, amazement, and awe;
Make objects, noise, movements, change, hypotheses, theories, relationships, and sense;
Study ideas of embodiment, my sameness, my uniqueness, my singularity, my part in a shared presence, collective consciousness, personal perspective, perception, being perceived, bodily movement, the role of bodily functions in thought, outer-body experience, the connection of body and mind, consciousness, communication, sensation, the desire to reach out to other beings, concepts of creativity, expressions of existence;
Question any hierarchy of beings, the role of artist, labour, labels and -isms, voice, objects, subjects, objectiveness, subjectiveness, objectification, subjectification, the existence of autonomy, independence, interdependence, the greater good, the role of the individual, freedom, current modes of intellectual property rights, monetary exchange systems, exchanges of labour, trade, current methods of globalization, distribution channels, markets, mass communication, contemporary culture, classification and the value of time;
Understand my place on Earth, the residue of physical place left on people, memory, my position in a democratic-capitalist society, my role as global citizen, the role of humans, relationships with people and the environment;
Discover through colour, form, line, texture, shape, sound, rhythm, rhyme, time, space, tools, movement, techniques, language, materials, design, craft, art, science, abstraction, reductionism, replication, philosophy, phenomenology, psychology, evolution, creation, spirit, history, current affairs, nature, dialogue and intuition;
*Modern Language Association (MLA): "art." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 24 Jun. 2010. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/art>.