|
I am fascinated
by the drama, complexity, and energy of the world’s rhythms of growth and decline.
In
2002, I read David Hackett Fischer’s The Great Wave. I have been
thinking about it ever since. The secular waves of growth and decline that both he and Malthus (An Essay On The Principle of Population) describe seem paradoxical, and yet natural.
They describe how:
Equilibrium
(peace and prosperity) leads to
Inflation
(more mouths to feed favors land owners and drives income inequality) which leads to
Crisis (asymmetries cause revolt).
I am creating a series of works to make these phases
tangible in as many ways as I can think of. I aim to create enough realism to transport the viewer into the action,
yet to achieve enough abstraction and surrealism to surprise.
I work
from my imagination, frequently starting by writing poetry or reading cliometric research as a means to germinate ideas, sometimes
taking photographs to create images that I then draw from. I work intuitively and I often do not fully understand why
I am drawn to certain images until later.
|
