artbydado

My art integrates past icons and unique methods into pieces that are both art and artifact. 

Consciousness is indispensible to human existence and progress.  Yet, too,  subconscious reaction has power immediately to draw and to hold one rapt.  Art bridges the two.  It is a sentient realization of being, a connector to thousands of years past, with the immutable capacity to transform.  The sense of our ancestors entering the darkness of caves and leaving markings that still illuminate us today epitomizes the creative process of making something beautiful and inspiring.  Yet,  the beauty and inspiration survives for us to witness today because it lay hidden from view for so many thousands of years.

My interest lies not in reconstucting relics or in abandoning the old for the new; rather, the challenge is to create modern artifacts that elicit ancestral and primordial ties, acknowledge the passage of time, and reach for the coincident harmony and discordance of crystallographic structures, dislocations and fragments.