Exhumed Universe Offers Fist-Bump

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Disclaimer: This body of work, and its corresponding artist statement, are still in gestation, so play nice. Think of this statement as an ultra-sound, but not the new creepy super-realistic version, the older version that was fuzzy and abstract.

This is a struggle to navigate uncharted territory whilst retaining balance and due honor to the history which is essential to momentum.

References to balance can be found in the five directions/colors of the Buddha layered with the ancient, and still useful, technology of gimbals. Gimbals are rings that pivot on one another and isolate the object that it is attached to in the center from roll, yaw, and pitch forces. These are used in navigation machines that require gyroscopes such as rockets or in more simple applications such as an oven on a ship. These rings can also be thought of as isolating spheres, much like the imagined heavens of Pythagoras, which created beautiful music through the friction of turning past one another.

References to momentum can be found in the honoring of general ideas that are threading through time, culture and discipline. Yes, this is exhuming the idea of the universal, but not without knowledge, due diligence of multiple contexts and an inclusive attitude. This is not Neo-Modernism trying to reconquer, or re-exclude, through establishing reformed universals; this is a handshake, or a fist-bump, through time, culture and discipline.

This artwork is created in the Midwestern U.S. where is not only revered but dearly loved as a way to move forward. This concept can be manifested in the use of the Fibonacci sequence which progresses by the addition of the former number to the current number. This sequence is used primarily in the graphite line work and as a general rule for compositional decision-making. There is a lot of drama in the frustrating incremental progression at the beginning of the sequence. However once the sequence reaches double-digits there is an acknowledgement of a lifting, a tip of a seesaw so to speak, and exhilaration floods in. Unfathomable numbers are soon being presented; the famine is over and the feast has begun. In the end, with this body of work, patient looking is momentously rewarded.