Another Artist Statement, John

Revised Statement

 I am painting landscapes on panel, where the panel itself goes through various forms of trauma. Intermittently, I collect the fragments and debris, and reintroduce them by mixing with paint or adhering them to the surface. The landscape resting atop an unstable and often fragile foundation of recycled materials, including: cardboard, MDF, and other waste. The landscape, the painting, and I are forced to adapt to the erosion of our interactions.
Likewise with my digital works of landscapes, I mishandle the files, let the instability of the compression algorithms influence the image, and add fractions of the stable image back into the transmission.
This process of destruction and reconstruction mimics that of the forest; as plants decay, they supply nutrients for new life. The situation seems to become more complicated as the artificial world gets mixed into the circulation. In this contemporary moment of turmoil, I want to approach landscape painting through multiple media. The human presence seems to have put pressure on ecological systems across the globe, and I seek to create images that reflect this interruption to the natural world.

If you read this, please let me know if I pulled too much of the abstract out. I tried to tone this down, but I want to make sure I am describing the Grand Canyon and not how I got there.

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  1. Dylan DeWittOctober 29, 2017 at 7:18 PM

    Yes, I like this second statement better. I think the structure is more effective—the order of ideas is easier to take in—and the different sections seem to elucidate one another. The details you offer about the process of making the paintings seem relevant to how you want them to be seen, so it doesn't seem like unnecessary detail to me.

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