“And I said, that last thing is what you can’t get Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living on catching it once and for all.” This quote from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, reflects the process in my work from the beginning until now.
Hence, I bring to my process this element of diversity through the process of uncertainty…. Each of my works is its own “aphorism” to quote a phrase from Anthony Elms' essay in the 2014 Whitney Biennial Catalog; each is “Its own escape, its own scenario, at the ever ready.” Each piece has its own life not necessarily dependent on the last work created. Each piece has its own voice which in turn speaks to the individual viewer to whom it reaches. Each piece rejects the colonial power of its predecessors. So, when I take my materials and ideas at hand, I never know what the end will bring. Each work is its own event.
I have lived by the sea my whole life; every day is different. Some days it is calm, or angry, or clear green or brown; the sea each day is its own irregular self. Paradoxically, this irregularity is what makes the sea consistent. My process reflects this process of change and flux, with risk-taking and chance left to determine the outcome...a celebration of the aesthetic of uncertainty.
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