Feeling Out For Something IV, acrylic, oil pastels, ballpoint pens and charcoal on leather, 36 inches by 24 inches, 2020 In conversation with an artist friend, I had this to say: "I think as artists we go back and forth between appreciating and visually representing the ideal and the real, and it's good like that. It gives us a wholesome view of the world. These little things we experience everyday matter. They collectively represent reality and are worth documenting. Then there are the things we experience only in our heads. Abstract thoughts and feelings. These collectively represent the ideal." The average young person is in a place of looking for ways to get heard, get visible. It's instinctive, this pressing desire to be related with, to be understood. What do we get however? A convoluted twist of feelings and biases that becloud the identity we're trying to project. We have a lot of things to communicate but it is left to the people who really care to conn
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