The Rethink Collection 2005 - Present

The Rethink Collection

Activist and Transgressive Art

Reaching to find the courage and conviction to give my art purpose, I have either to create art with a message in order to give it meaning or it must justify itself in some way to be held as worthy. The representation of an image must be reflexive and be it’s own advocate. We have finished destroying art it can go no lower than it is, now we need to find a way to rebuild it. Art without a path or standard has become anti-art, once embraced and encouraged by the museum or other art authority.

The boundaries between art and everyday life have been eliminated as now anything is art and everyone is an artist. We thus have effectively made everything art and thereby eliminating it completely. Decorative art diverts us, uplifts, consoles and pleases us; contemporary art dismays and troubles us, causing pain and returning us to our misery.

Art should be adversarial; it should not reflect back society’s illusions it should demonstrate the brutal truths of our society. It should teach, convince, and cause us to meditate on our world. It should enlarge our perspective and our sensibilities. It is no longer representational it is a presentation that causes us to challenge our perception and understanding of some issue.

Digital Art has the ability to amaze us with visions of the future that range from the idealistic to the spiritual and depictions of the ruinous. Based within mathematics the algorithms, sometimes echo the fractals of past geometric art of middle eastern culture, contemporary 3D computer graphics has become a spatially modified aspect of geometric data.

My art is uniquely figurative as I believe that the figure remains the inveterate language with which to communicate, what I believe are, commentaries on our human condition. The contemporary figure is no longer purely representational but rather a presentation that might causes us to change our perception and encourage us to look within ourselves.