Imagination is the catalyst of my contemporary artwork, which I have discovered through the study of asymmetric psychology. With the purest pigments of color I intend to reveal the state of consciousness that is entirely present only within the right hemisphere, where our dreams are a waking reality. This whimsical style of pastel painting is birthed from the other dimension of recognition, a dream-like consciousness. The distortion then is my attempt to allow an image its freedom in the right brain where there is no true order of the senses. Form must be recognizable only enough to suggest the portrait, which I define with loosely gestured strokes, inspired by local images that we are familiar with seeing, not perceiving.
I present the mystical quality of purple, which makes my images appear dream-like, or fantastical. On the purple paper I create a very bright and vivid image to be honest and human, sincere, romantic, and comforting, almost child-like. Purple represents the spiritual or the mysterious. It combines the sexuality and excitement of red with the calm tranquility of blue. I was extremely excited to begin my painting career in the open public eye, but also so very scared to expose myself to the misconceptions of Art and the "Artist". All I ever knew was that people said it was difficult to make a living as an Artist, and so this made me even more scared to devote myself entirely to such a difficult task. But I believe in the honesty of blue, and so I believed that I would overcome my fear of the unknown. And so on the color that represents my fear of the unknown and magical, I paint with optimism and cheerfulness, elevating my intellect with passion. It is my intention to cultivate this fear of the unknown into an image of optimism and beauty, to present the possibility of another dimension by recognizing and comparing this first dimension of reality by which we are connected to in body and logic. There is something in it that is of the darker nature of life. This is not what I am trying to attract, but more appropriately what I am trying to connect with in order to make the more optimistic sensation enhanced, a suggestion about the beautiful human condition.
My Art is to inspire the imagination, to be comforting and thought provoking, to be haunting yet familiar. It has allowed me to feel and to express an extraordinary existence. It is unfortunate that we allow our dreams to mature past our childhood illusions, that we allow our consciousness active closure to the possibility of the extraordinary, trading magic for fact as we grow into adults. Our reality is not only what we have accepted but what we have also questioned, created, or imagined. My work forces the imagination to make sense of something mysterious. It is simply the suggestion of another way of thinking, of another reality, or of possibly a better one, saturated with passion and a lust for life. If we have not questioned the perception of our fundamental consciousness, then we have not exercised our creative imagination, which allows us to dream. And if we have lived only by the logical or rational we would not have fully lived at all, because we must not always sleep in order to wake while we dream. Life is like a fairy tale, and so I continue to dream.
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