I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
From Dan Colen
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
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