Artist Statement
The intangible, invisible, and immaterial are mediated by the mythopoetic imagination. The mythopoetic imagination can be manipulated by concrete materials and processes – tools which allow the mind to focus on the intangible. Thus, hidden aspects of mental, cultural, natural, and supernatural realms become accessible and may be managed and transformed through the animation and activation of materials and processes in the mythopoetic imagination. My work exists in the interplay in the space between objects and actions, the perencial and the (con)temporary, the mind's projections and perception.
// Poisons
My present work is a continuation of an investigating begun with the "Poisons" series: the interaction between the immaterial and the material through plants that have historical, cultural, and personal significance and to which metaphorical, poisonous/curative, and magical properties have been subscribed.
Excerpts from DIE GIFTKÜCHE (pp. 208-209) of Pharmako/poeia by Dale Pendell:
You have to recognize the poisons to be free of them. They are ethereal, but certainly related to molecules in a most odd, surprising, and natural way... Subtler poisons are so pervasive that their scale is global or universal – yet they operate in history. No need for quantum mechanics here – or for an excursion into materialism, be it ever so mystical.
There are many poisons about. Often they enter us unbidden and unnoticed. The subtlest poisons can live within us indefinitely, like quiet parasites... "All things contain poison," our beloved Paracelsus wrote, "there is nothing without poison."
Cigarettes, books, apples. Windows, walls.
All poisons are potential allies.