Project Overview
It is my firm belief that the most transcendental truths can not be approached directly, but rather like the blinding light of the sun, must instead be communicated through mediums of varying transparency and opaqueness. While the medium of writing is often treated as the foremost means of transmitting ideas, when the subjects are as ephemeral as death, transformation, and the shifting of consciousness, the word is often overtaken by the symbolic resonance of image and feeling. Understanding that is to successfully pierce the walls of consciousness must find circuitous routes to avoid the well-worn pathways of the mundane. The focus of my work then is neither in explaining art, nor in illustrating ideas; it is rather in presenting the subjects in multiple mediums to guide the viewer. Neither form of communication should overtake the other in the mind of the listener, but rather they should be allowed to cascade, each over the other, out of their wells of ecstatic trance, towards their singular destination.
An Ideal Knife, 2015
“…This conceptual singularity is at the root of the Western concept of a immutable God. The idea that makes up this core, on which so many other ideas are either explicitly or implicitly base, is that God, rather than existing as a being of infinite perfection, is perfection itself. The unreachable concept, inexplicable but self-evident, the ideal being, the perfect work of art, are all in their ways descriptors for this singularity that all things might reach, given the infinite…”
Waiting for the Fall, 2015
“As the systems of our collective creation inevitably work to tame and exert domineering control over the natural systems of the world, so to do they exercise control over the wild parts of our own natures. Such systems, by their nature, coerce members towards ends distinct from their individuality and the unique paths towards which their souls otherwise compel them. Though these collective goals once were, in many cases, born out of collective need (often caused by collective mistakes) more often than not, the systems stubbornly persist after their time has passed, both in their structural edifices, and more insidiously, in the hearts of those unfortunate enough to be caught in their nets…”