Honing in

Over the last year, I have really been struggling with one question: what am i interested and what should my art really be about?? After much mulling and pointless interneting i feel i might have made some progress. Here it goes.

My interest really lies within the built world that surrounds us. Specifically, the way we perceive, interact with, and observe the spaces that have been created and erected around us. However, it is the little imperfections which i am drawn to. The cracks, the warps the dirt, the decay, everything that shouldn't be there. It is precisely these things which are glossed over by the average eye making the world appear orderly and neat, or at least unremarkable to most people. I would like my work to challenge this and bring attention to the imperfections and the disorder of the built world surrounding us and to, even if just for a moment, allow someone to perceive the space around them in a completely new way. While i personally my be obsessed with the built imperfections, i have no desire to make people notice such things. Instead, i merely want to challenge people look around, look down, look up, look above, look under, look next to, look beneath......

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With that said, there are a few artists which I think embody this ideal beautifully, some of which i may have mentioned on this blog before. Here they are:
Space Invader
Above
Little People
Mark Jenkins
Zevs
Revs
Vladimir Cruells
The Graffiti Research Lab

I guess the future of the blog will not only continue to organize my thoughts and share awesome inspirations i might come across; but also to maybe explore said artists work in relationship to my working statement of intent above. Also, if i can remember to charge my camera, i'll try to upload more photos of the peculiarities of the built world that surround us.

Thats all for tonight.
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