Displacements

“Travel Journals and Displacements” brings together other works within itself, an accumulation or collage of different images generated or appropriated from what I have observed, where I have traveled, as they shape an expanding body or work. As an artist, one is also a spectator, and throughout the learnings upon which you construct your world, you take fragments of what influences you, that which you admire or what you have contemplated. Western painting is part of my visual education. These great works in the History of Art brought upon a need to displace them into my reality and frame what I have observed throughout my life, extending them in time into a new cultural, geographic and social context. They are classic art works because they address that which is human, therefore their validity, permanence and my desire for empathy as I rediscover them conceptually and learn from their high level of faktura; explaining profoundly what my work is and my interests regarding human beings, time and art.