Artists who preach some kind of vision that their art fulfills always come across as Soapbox Orators without the soapbox. Aside from Andy Warhol’s famous declaration that in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes, no other pearl of wisdom from artists survives, only their work.
“Scatterbrain” describes my artwork because the linear gets you to a destination, while the lateral gets you to an inspiration. That eureka moment is always just out of eyeshot, like a clear picture of Yeti, and like the pursuit of happiness is never truly in one’s grasp. Women lay claim to intuition, but men lay claim to the hunch. I play my hunch, and do the work, that’s Scatterbrain.
Your life is your own, so why can’t you display it as well as Renoir or Van Gogh. We all collect little pieces, mementos, signposts in our lives. They are all kinds of items, usually hand-held, and they mean nothing to anyone else. We hold onto them for their memory until they are lost, stolen or broken and then the memory fades. But why let that happen? People call them “memory boxes” but I take it much farther than memory. I ask my client three questions, “When did you get it?” Where did you get it?” and “What personal significance does it have for you?” Based on the answers from those three questions I make your Personal Museum in a typeset box, sturdy, secure, made to travel as you travel through your life. Not a dusty box of the dusty past but a dynamic representation of the drama that is your life.
My work here is derived from trash. All these pieces originated as packing materials for consumer products like vacuum cleaners, computers or cases of wine. Did I make these pieces as a statement of support for environmental justice? No. I didn’t see politics; I just saw faces or flowers or gargoyles. If you wish to attach to them some greater environmental cause when you hang them in your living room, feel free, I’ll back you up.
A poor Pink Floyd “The Wall” pun I’ll admit. This is the most recent branch of my artistic works. Famous people, famous images, put together in a most unusual way. If you have an appetite for seeing these well-known icons arranged in a different, clever and mostly inappropriate manner, then this is for you. If you are looking for a self-portrait or an homage to a past family member, I’ll come up with something challenging yet on the mark.
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