Entropic Dreams, Graphite on paper, 24 x 18″

 

 

Leading Myself Down, cut up magazines on paper, 16 in. x 13″

 

 

Depths, Graphite on paper, 24 x 18″

 

 

Anima and Animus, Oil paint on canvas, 28 x 20″

 

 

Fires End, Oil paint on canvas, 24 x 36″

 

Artist Statement

As decay and disorder sets in the very nature and structure of a thing or person can be frayed. Transformation akin to that decay can be rather horrifying for those that once knew what it was. In my drawing “Entropic Dreams” I wanted to catch the horror of going down into those old places to see just what happens to those things we abandon to time. The monsters that form out dust and relics that were once there, alongside the stories we tell ourselves of new things that could break apart our very lives.

Whatever they may be, they reflect leftover emotions that churn and crackle, contorted by entropy. What was once home, and hearth now reflects all those things that lurk within the deepest parts of our unconscious. All too often in life one moment can be caught up in a million others, but fantasy magnifies the problems one wants to focus on, while allowing the magic so often neglected within oneself to thrive.