MEDITATION SERIES

Artist Note: This series started as an exercise I would do before I started working on pieces that required a lot patience and focus. I'm just trying to become more aware of myself, the space, and the type of energy I'm coming with.

Little known fact; because I hardly talk about shit with people. I was originally inspired by David Smith's Hudson River landscape when I started working with continuous contour lines and eventually the meditations. I love that David Smith piece because it is a calculated expression. At the time I was really into thick oil paint and non-mixed colors, everything was heavy and bright and reminded me of Fruitloops. I was really into the Fauvs. Anyway. Eventually I got stuck and got some great advice, "take things away." So I stopped using color for a while, chilled with the hot glue and Modgepodge, and I got a pencil and some paper and just tried to feel my mind moving across the page. I started to see patterns embedded in myself, decisions I wasn't making, eventually I started to see new possibilities, .

Look at things one way, you can get stuck working one way. Thinking "this is the way", or "this is what it is," is stifling. I'm trying to say some shit about shifting perspectives, asking questions, and demanding answers, but sometimes demanding answers is the problem. It's like sometimes you think you're digging, but you're actually climbing, or sometimes you think you're flying but you're actually falling, or sometimes you think you're falling, but depending on what you land on, is that really a bad thing?