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Painting, Latex on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 48 H x 1 D in
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‘Rhizome, 2021’ is a piece that represents an idea I’ve been exploring since 2005 when I first started traveling to the desert Southwest. The idea is that different races and ethnic groups of humans have a spiritual connection to parts of the earth that they are native to. The idea is that people naturally grow out of certain places on the earth just like certain vegetation grows naturally out of certain environments. Humans have a type of invisible root system that tethers them to their native lands that is spiritual, or non-physical. As a metaphor, I liken that spiritual connection to the earth to the concept of a rhizome. A rhizome is like a massive, sprawling underground root system. A naturally occurring layer of indigenous vegetation above ground can be mowed down, for example, but the rhizome underground remains unaffected and vital. Grass, for example, or other vegetation with shallow roots, can be planted on a mowed surface and take shallow root. It can even appear to dominate the landscape for a time, even a long time on some cases. But ultimately the presence of the rhizome prevents anything foreign from gaining any kind of a permanent foothold on the land. It’s just a matter of time, usually when the superficial layer of foreign vegetation is weakened for some reason, before the rhizome will inevitably reassert itself on the surface of it’s own native ground. Years of traveling in New Mexico have convinced me that the remaining Native American populations of the desert Southwest, and indigenous people all over the world for that matter, are anchored to the their native lands through a type of spiritual rhizome...
Painting:Latex on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 48 H x 1 D in
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Technology has played an important role in the development of my work as an artist. Though I consider myself primarily a painter, I feel that much of my most original and progressive work is in the newly emergent digital medium. I grew up artistically in the heart of a technological hub and this was central to the integration of technology with my art. I do not believe that technology is "the" future of art. I believe that technology, like every innovation in art before it, is an exciting new aspect of modern art and I feel honored to be a part of that. I am also a theorist on the nascent field of contemporary metapsychology.
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