northwest passage Artwork

My work is idea and feeling based. It has been compared to the work of Cecily Brown, Oskar Kokoschko, and Hieronymus Bosch. Why make Art: I want to be of use, to be an asset to the bio-world. Produce something that grips the heart, informs the mind. I offer, but don’t try to force anything. I bring things into myself: history, scientific discoveries. Art becomes an affixing of the resolution of these thoughts,. What Kind: People in all guises get lots of coverage from artists. While my life has had rocky times, this is not the world that grips my imagination, rather, the one beyond it. My intuitive connection has been with different beings, somehow possible to connect with on a common experience level. The skein of mentality, of interaction, of seeing into, or inhabiting another creature’s world. The multi-experience of that- imagine how rich! Some have other senses: e.g. bees and birds that can see ultraviolet, octopi with multiple brains, and dogs that can smell Covid19. All of our ways of coming to understand more; AI communication, medical exploration, brain scans, physics that posit multi-verses, vast organisms like the 106 acre Pando Aspen forest: these other ways of experiencing this world. Each creature inhabits a world mediated by its sensitivities… in my exploration I leave the human world a bit, reach for anothers’, try to bring that experience back. Try to affix it. But many life-forms face obliteration. These are existential catastrophes tear at me. I don't shy away from the ways we have brought human things into the dwelling places of other animals, rather gather bits of our debris along with the twigs, dirt, vegetation that bear on the daily experiences of the animal inhabitants. All these become materials affixed to the substrate. These ideas are applied in the specific artworks submitted, further laid forth in each description paragraph.