Night Sounds In Yangon Print

Made in Yangon, Myanmar, 2008. Created in a 6 x 8 inch drawing pad, using a Sakura Ink pen. A study of the sounds of the city from the top room of a tall building. This was then digitally manipulated (inversed) using Photoshop in 2022. I have been traveling to Asia since 2005. During these trips, I gathered audio recordings of environments and folk music, as well as making drawings, photographs, and videos. These gatherings culminated in a series of audio compositional pieces, and an ongoing body of drawings & paintings, which were initiated in 2008. I am curious and enjoy gathering and sharing what I find interesting with others, and prefer to see my life’s creative output as merely manifestations made on a path. My painting process includes the layering and alteration of designs & colors (which were seen during these travels), combining traditional, contemporary, and commercial imagery with the occasional reproduction of a sourced drawing or photo. They are combinations, altered appropriative collages, improvisations. Embodied also is my fascination with the romantic view of tropical regions and their beauty, and the mystical practices and energies which occur in these places. I allow for an open ended-ness in the result of my paintings. They are made in a spontaneous manner, worked to compositionally resolve, but also to allow for unplanned results. Appreciation for the unique mental spaces created by experimental composition and improvised music informs my visual work. If perhaps our connection to reality, and for that matter reality itself, is created by our language; then maybe if one believes or accepts something new; it does already it exist, and it has been discovered.