Primary Media Is Wood Block Carving and Printing
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Most of my work revolves around the tensions between two dichotomous worlds: the External Landscape (as we see the world around us), and the Inner Self (which is a landscape unto its own). This inner world tends to control our perceptions of the outside world. I am moved by the kind of dialogue that exists in one’s own Soul through the use of images associated within these two worlds, sometimes simplified and at other times abstracted. I seek to convey the existence of this dialogue between these two levels of perception in the contrast of the Outside world such as trees, mountains, suns, and clouds; and associations with the Internal likenesses of bones, eyes, heads, and other embodiments. My hope is that the viewer will sense a spiritual direction across these two planes of our existence and be inclined to contemplate the meaning as it applies to one’s own movement. I am of the mind that when a work leaves the artist’s studio, the image belongs to the viewer for the duration they spend with the work… for this time, the piece is theirs.
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Internal External
Media - Wood Block
75"x43"x1"
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