Artistic expression has been a communication form in life from the very beginning. Growing up drawing was as natural to me as reading, writing and speaking. I would take an idea and put it on paper, and share it with others.
Over time, as my artistic skills developed and my audience expanded, my motives and methods became layered and varied. The basic pattern, however, remains the same—inspiration, creative and sharing.
At a primary level, good draftsmanship, design, color, texture and the like are elements of my work, and distinct from its spirit. At a secondary level, uses of allegory, making metaphors, or crating atmosphere are still just devices used in my artistic expression.
My hope is to transcend, form an idea of inspiration using familiar but ever changing subject matter, often making metaphors. My work is a deliberate reach for feelings, memory and passion.
I understand the concept art has some social responsibility. I find that ancient ubiquitous character of art contrasts sharply with today’s idea that art is a luxury product of civilization, a cultural frill, and a piece of social veneer. Art in the generic term of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, literature, drama and film, maybe defined as a practice of creating perceptible form expressive of human feeling.
It fits better with the conviction held by most artists that art is the vanguard of human life, the truest record of insight and feeling, and that the strongest military or economic society without art is poor in comparison with the most primitive tribes’ painters, dancers, or idol carvers.