Everlast Collage

“It’s tempting to tether ourselves to the familiar comfort of the way things are, but fulfillment is often discovered in the unpredictable and unknown.” Jaeda DeWalt “This idea of fulfillment as articulated by the photographer and poet Jaeda DeWalt finds particular resonance in my thoughts. Fulfillment can mean many things to many people. To an artist, the printed word, the harmonies and counterpoint of music, the voice and gesture of the dramatic arts, or the colors and blank surfaces of the painter, fulfillment comes in the act of intimate communication with the reader, listener, audience, or viewer. All art is a reaching out to share the very personal vision of the artist with others. I have used shape, color and scale to create a sense of things both strange and familiar; to flavor the known with the unknown; and give to the viewer a sense of discovery amid scenes and objects. This intriguing ambiguity for the viewer is a result of their memory, abstraction of the natural world, surrealist images, and the melding of all these things into a subjective interpretation.”