artbydado

I consider the scope, loss and retention of identity through translation and transition, when what a thing or being is occupies changeable and in-between states.

I use conventions and expectations identified with one medium to create work in other mediums while integrating past icons into pieces that have identity as art and as artifact. 

Identity is entangled in the conscious and the subconscious.  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 capacity for creative transformation.  Yet, paradoxically,  the transformation inside the caves survives for us to witness today because it lay hidden from view for so many thousands of years.