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"The spirit of the modern theist is like a bird in the cage of the physical body"
- Mathias Zanhiser
The arcane knowledge gained through contact with surfaces motivates my explorations into digital media. A surface contains history, recording the passage of moments and eons. A surface is precious and sacred, a liminal interface between the known and unknown, unlocked by tactile experience. I interpret surface through digital forms, allowing me to nderstand the information encoded in textures, patterns, weathering, and markings. While the surface is material, the digital mark is immaterial. Using the digital allows me to reveal the invisible qualities of a surface. Taken as a whole, my body of work expresses a mythical narrative focusing on the transformation of reality, exposing the yet to be within the here and now.
Enacting a dream or vision is central to my work. This process breaks down negative transcendence; the vision points to the form and serves the form. Breaking down the division between screen and audience in a spiritual sense, a distributed spirituality emerges. The hierarchical spiritual structure is artificial; God is diffused through the Spirit. The nomadic artist then is continually searching through Spirit to find a country of their own. Dominant culture is no longer the context for spiritual experience, rather the alternative reality is sought through cultural syncretism and technological transposition. There is no platonic ideal, but the embodied prophetic voice.