Moreover,
psychoanalysis and dreamwork are employed to reveal
the hidden meanings of images emergent from my unconscious
– or the mind of the viewer, as impulses differing
from any conscious intentions – evoking hypnogogic-hallucinative
images in agreement with Eric Fromm’s theory
of dreams as the “ ‘Forgotten Language’
that express both the wisdom and spirituality that
transcends waking thought.” And reacting to
the detached rationalism of much of recent art practice
I bemoan the descent of a once revolutionary artform
into effete, fawning, commercial decorative items.
I seek a more ardent, piquant effervescence in art,
and set to employ randomness, chance procedures,
mixed techniques, fragmentation, the use of objet
trouves, letting nature do it, occasionally using
leaves, soil, sand, natural and industrial debris
as alternative, if anarchic modes of expression.
The purpose of art as a potent tool of political
protest and social satire is never to be precluded.
It
may be said that the style is at its fullest when
its contrasting elements become interdependent and
cannot be the same without the interactive discontinuities,
dissociations and connections. Syncretism, in retrospect,
developed in the early 1980’s simultaneously
with neo-expressionism and the new-figuration in
America and Europe.
Moreover,
psychoanalysis and dreamwork are employed to reveal
the hidden meanings of images emergent from my unconscious
– or the mind of the viewer, as impulses differing
from any conscious intentions – evoking hypnogogic-hallucinative
images in agreement with Eric Fromm’s theory
of dreams as the “ ‘Forgotten Language’
that express both the wisdom and spirituality that
transcends waking thought.” And reacting to
the detached rationalism of much of recent art practice
I bemoan the descent of a once revolutionary artform
into effete, fawning, commercial decorative items.
I seek a more ardent, piquant effervescence in art,
and set to employ randomness, chance procedures,
mixed techniques, fragmentation, the use of objet
trouves, letting nature do it, occasionally using
leaves, soil, sand, natural and industrial debris
as alternative, if anarchic modes of expression.
The purpose of art as a potent tool of political
protest and social satire is never to be precluded.
It
may be said that the style is at its fullest when
its contrasting elements become interdependent and
cannot be the same without the interactive discontinuities,
dissociations and connections. Syncretism, in retrospect,
developed in the early 1980’s simultaneously
with neo-expressionism and the new-figuration in
America and Europe.
