MUCK & MIRE NOW ON SALE

The title “Muck & Mire” for my paintings on paper might appear to be done with tongue-in-cheek, but in fact I was fully aware of what I was about in this title, and what I wanted to emphasize in this series. I did them to display as a collection and digitally, not necessarily as wall art, because as a contemporary artist I’m able to show in any digital manner I wish, from a simple slide presentation to a much more complex digital presentation, and I can include music, along with a voice introduction which expresses my purpose in this body of work. While extensive freedom is given to me in the contemporary art field, I still must have an aesthetic value in what is done.

I created the twenty-two Muck & Mire works on Stonehenge paper in mixed media in 2018. My idea was to unearth in my Muck & Mire series the ‘codes’ and ‘patterns’ in the muck and mire of our humanity. Some art historians and authors claim that in art ‘codes’ must be created, whereas ‘patterns’ are repetitions of specific visual elements.

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