If
something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then
eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not
boring at all." --John Cage.
This quote
has been a catalyst for my work for the past eleven years. When I am stuck in
traffic or dropping my children off at school I often wonder how people are
going to spend their days. Mine are spent wearing a respirator and noise cancelling
headphones creating work that is hopefully stretching the boundaries of the
very genre in which it resides. Art that has the biggest impact on me is work
that conjures questions of your perception of things you thought you already knew. Perhaps it is taking something
incredibly simple and looking at it in a very complex manner. If my work is
successful on any level it will create a visual pause. Demanding the viewer to
take a closer look. In a society that is so enamored with having everything
immediately, making work that reacts against this is my ultimate goal.
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