ARTIST STATEMENT

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As an artist, my job is to give you, the viewer, a new visual dialogue; a new way of experiencing art. During my research I would go to art galleries and see that the individuality and the singularity is dormant, and I say all of this with peace and love. I looked inward as a person and thought of these historical art figures that are repeatedly calling to me as a creative: Hieronymus Bosch, Gustav Klimt, Otto Dix, and Karl Hofer. I chose these specific historical artists because, to me, they had the frequency I was looking for with their art being from World War II. With their art being from this era, the pressure from human society creates a diamond, a vice, a new dialogue. That was one part of the puzzle complete in my research. The next part was a simple question; What do I like? And the answer was rock and roll. The vocabulary of rock and roll is already established, for example, Keith Richards’s scarf, Jimmy Page’s boots, and of course the leather biker jacket. By fusing these two ideas, the cause and effect has resulted in this unconventional canvas; a leather jacket with a beautifully executed painting on top of it.