Artist’s DREAMVESSELS STATEMENT

The phrase dreamVessels derives from, and intuitively refers to, the soul journey of dreams since both dreamVessels and dreams are assembled from seemingly unrelated elements creating a believably rearranged sense of reality.

A major element of this series is the rearrangement of the viewer’s sensibilities with nautically convincing structures that reveal themselves to be composed of everyday objects connected in unexpected format. After initial aesthetic appeal, most materials are selected for their strength and durability. Other materials are incorporated because of their evocative potential and/or reference to my personal biography. An additional artistic influence is from the realm of the Dada movement.

Alluding to the viewer’s personal, hidden recesses of the human spirit, dreamVessels are delicate, detailed found object, bilaterally symmetrical works, highly evocative of fantasy sailing vessels from an ancient technology in a parallel universe. The series’ imagery draws heavily from traditional marine aesthetic, vocabulary and architecture. Sail fabric comes only from shirts I have worn. Seen individually, or arrayed in armada style exhibition, dreamVessels create a visual presence transcending conventional description.

Further aesthetic considerations exist in their own realm and are not linear, sequential or even necessarily logical. For me, the work functions on several levels simultaneously without a single dominant, correct interpretation

The artwork is:

1. My expression of an obsessive need to make these objects.
2. Creative exploration in pursuit of new visual experience.
3. The result of an on-going search for a less traditional materials palette.
4. Gut-level reactionary response to Minimalism.
5. A physical expression of my connection to the spirit world.
6. Pro environmental; Anti-materialistic
7. A cultural artifact from a parallel universe.
8. Whimsical and serious at the same time.
9. All of these things, and more.
10. None of these things, and less.