OPTIMISTIC-OPTICALITY

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This work does not start with an idea; it starts with many ideas that serendipitously contextualize as the work evolves. Utilizing time, space, patterning and color, along with geometric and volumetric forms, I lead viewers to experience the tension between illusionistic space and the medium's physical characteristics. By deploying a color rhythm with a pinball-like saccade motion, the viewer is visually drawn into a mental vortex. Drafted lines reference unspecified, archetypal structures and spaces. The underlying architecture is uncovered and interwoven in the processes. In this paradigm, fact and illusion are equals that work in tandem to create a pool of potential signifiers. My Masonic Bohemian ancestors are the ideological and poetical structures that form these ideas. The work's context is imbued with references to early Pop and Op Art, carnivals and semiotics. The entire body of work possesses fluctuating variables that support or suspend meaning in various contexts.