What makes up the energy behind creative output? Is it ever one thing, one experience? I have never found that to be the case. Every moment of influence in our lives represents a symbolic instance where our emotions and the experiences of life form an attachment. These attachments knit together to create the fabric of our being.
In my work as mainly a figure artist I have come to realize that my most dynamic discoveries happened when I widened my scope from singular moments of influence into a larger view of the consistent patterns that ran through the chain of muses living inside me as well as my subjects. This process allows me to break down and re-categorize the elements I draw inspiration from. Having done this, I am able to really analyze what colors, themes, images, concepts, and content I have strong tendencies for. Once this recognition happens it allows me the chance to
wield my inspirations, using them with a truer, more logical purpose, or even
choosing to work against them entirely.
I believe that even just moments of being inspired often signify tips to icebergs. Here below every creative influence that strikes us is an infrastructure of other influences that lead us to a current idea. There are inherent patterns in the things we draw inspiration from. A consistency or commonality exists that
forms our sense of what to be inspired by, even if these connections do not seem obvious at first.
A large part of my current work is trying to decipher these patterns and then create works that employ the various elements of influence into one figure in an effort to display a new sort of narrative about the subject through the transitions in painting styles and content. Using my subjects, I am looking for themes in an individual sources of inspiration, no matter how unrelated they may seem. From these findings, it is then my task to employ my own sense of inspiration in how to render the pattern I have discovered into a harmonized, unifying work that marries the subject, our muses, and myself.
In my work as mainly a figure artist I have come to realize that my most dynamic discoveries happened when I widened my scope from singular moments of influence into a larger view of the consistent patterns that ran through the chain of muses living inside me as well as my subjects. This process allows me to break down and re-categorize the elements I draw inspiration from. Having done this, I am able to really analyze what colors, themes, images, concepts, and content I have strong tendencies for. Once this recognition happens it allows me the chance to
wield my inspirations, using them with a truer, more logical purpose, or even
choosing to work against them entirely.
I believe that even just moments of being inspired often signify tips to icebergs. Here below every creative influence that strikes us is an infrastructure of other influences that lead us to a current idea. There are inherent patterns in the things we draw inspiration from. A consistency or commonality exists that
forms our sense of what to be inspired by, even if these connections do not seem obvious at first.
A large part of my current work is trying to decipher these patterns and then create works that employ the various elements of influence into one figure in an effort to display a new sort of narrative about the subject through the transitions in painting styles and content. Using my subjects, I am looking for themes in an individual sources of inspiration, no matter how unrelated they may seem. From these findings, it is then my task to employ my own sense of inspiration in how to render the pattern I have discovered into a harmonized, unifying work that marries the subject, our muses, and myself.