ARTIST STATEMENT
FROM "MAKE IT NEW" MUSEUM EXHIBIT IN 1991

 

Photograph by Jeff Frazier 1996

Technology is continually a challenge. Art and music is a continual challenge because we, as artists, are living filters to the world around us. Worldly speaking, the latter part of this century has indeed caused us to filter many different situations. We strive to be original and unique, but recycling old concepts with new techniques and emotions seem to fit well with recent trends. After all, recycling is the basis of earth's life cycle.

I work in creative cycles. Sometimes I am totally into visual communication and othertimes musical communication. Weaving between different forms of media or disciplines offers inspiration. I reflect in my own style, hopefully in positive light, the pure and the impure, observations and experiences of my life.

I thrive on challenges and human interaction.

Computer technology offers a new medium for expression in this decade. In a world filled with environmental stresses, the computer offers a much cleaner alternative to a paper driven world. Computers can have a tendency to feel inorganic and cold. This is true. A healthy balance between natural, physical processes and technology assisted processes is of utmost importance for us to maintain balance.

My art is sometimes intellectual and othertimes emotional. Both are needed to remain balanced.

The act of creativity. It is indeed one of the supreme satisfactions and purposes of life. Creativity is the expression of the spirit and soul. The process we go through to complete an idea to a presentable form harbors a never ending learning environment. Through this learning we can grow to a more thorough understanding of ourselves individually, collectively, spiritually and physically. Look how children create, learn and grow. We must not lose sight of this purpose. I know I was born on this planet to learn and grow.

Art and music knows no cultural boundaries or restrictions. It can cut through all of the tensions surrounding racial, social and cultural differences. It can convey the positive or negative. As I take the role of creative collaborator and artist throughout the remainder of my time here on earth my goal is to create a positive life experience and act as a catalyst to help other creative people achieve their goals. If I am able to spark a light in the hearts of my friends so they may experience a similar joy like I have experienced in my creative travels, then all my efforts are worth it.

And so it goes. Just do it.

 

 

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