I have had a longstanding foundation in process-oriented art. When process work functions at a high level it moves toward its own autonomy. It definitely calls attention to the meditative labor involved in the construction. The repetition of marks or lines in different values or colors creates a meditative and atmospheric perception. At best one hopes for a transformation for the viewer. I’m interested in abstraction that has only the faintest of the subject’s actual form. In the back of my mind I have always been in
search of imagery halfway between abstraction and representation, perhaps between the commonplace and the extraordinary, between reality and dream.
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Robert Walker Artistic Statement: 2009
I have had a longstanding foundation in process-oriented art. When process work functions at a high level it moves toward its own autonomy. It definitely calls attention to the meditative labor involved in the construction. The repetition of marks or lines in different values or colors creates a meditative and atmospheric perception. At best one hopes for a transformation for the viewer. I’m interested in abstraction that has only the faintest of the subject’s actual form. In the back of my mind I have always been in
Comment by aylwardnow October 4, 2009 @ 12:25 amsearch of imagery halfway between abstraction and representation, perhaps between the commonplace and the extraordinary, between reality and dream.