Sojourners:
65 1/4"x 84"
oil on panel
I recently was turned on to a German artist, Franz Ackerman, who works in loud colors and chaotic but deftly crafted compositions. This is my style as well and it's perpetually amazing to me how the imagery of the times comes from us, the artists, isolated from one another and without any dialogue or correspondence about our type of work. But there are so many shared experiences these days that gives us a similar impulse i suppose. A collision of ideas and experiences, fusion and explosion of cultures, proliferation of the knowledge of incessant calamity, computer screens and the reinterpretation of local color into light, pixels, energy, global awareness, the speed of planes and an infinite collage of imagery outside the framework of time and space all motivate me to represent the world in this overlapping system of awareness.
