Evolution of Thought

These are my artist statements from the past year speaking on my process with my current works. I found it interesting how idea of creation and my thoughts my works have evolved and changed .Yet there speaking on the same thing a personal growth of self and perspective. The first statement was my first the last my last.

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I use art to explore the various factions of identity and the corroborative perspectives communicated through many cultural personas. Creating a story for each piece I depict the opposing ideologies of the assumed and actual identity of self, within the social context and a given environment. The conflicts dealing with identity are self-afflicted in order to resolve or understand the unconscious and conscious plights occurring with the development of an identity. I challenge myself to identify not with a persona created from stereotypes or self-denial, but one of an assimilated culture. A culture of experiences, memories, life lessons, and people that are influential to the socialization process. I examine culture and its meaning focusing less on racial and class identity and more on the personal adaptations to life.  Experimenting with, culturally foreign contexts and adapting them to self, creating a parallel of understanding. Creating pieces with the intent to reveal some truth not only to myself, but to the audience. The pieces are reflective of a reserved elusive perspective with a caution of divulging too much. The pieces are reworked until a resolution Is reached: an acceptance of self not only within my community, but within what I've created. I assert my perspective but in respect to the evasive views of my identity, coming to the realization that I am defined by being undefined.
I'm using these pieces to document the beginning of my growth into the articulation of my perspective. Including my socialization and the components of my thought process reflecting all, but assuming nothing. Abiding by an analytical nature, I take note to emotions and subjects that I've suppressed as issues, and acknowledge that I am plagued by them, although I deny them power. During this process I grow into acceptance of my vulnerability and us the works as resolutions to my conflicts. Allowing my work to grow to represent accurate symbols of my past and a benchmark to my growth. 

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I use art to explore the various factions of identity and the corroborative perspectives communicated through many cultural personas. Creating a story for each piece I depict the opposing ideologies of the assumed and actual identity of self, within the social context and a given environment. The conflicts dealing with identity are self-afflicted in order to resolve or understand the unconscious and conscious plights occurring with the development of an identity. I challenge myself to identify not with a persona created from stereotypes or self-denial, but one of an assimilated culture. A culture of experiences, memories, life lessons, and people that are influential to the socialization process. I examine culture and its meaning focusing less on racial and class identity and more on the personal adaptations to life.  Experimenting with, culturally foreign contexts and adapting them to self, creating a parallel of understanding. Creating pieces with the intent to reveal some truth not only to myself, but to the audience. The pieces are reflective of a reserved elusive perspective with a caution of divulging too much. The pieces are reworked until a resolution Is reached: an acceptance of self not only within my community, but within what I've created. I assert my perspective but in respect to the evasive views of my identity, coming to the realization that I am defined by being undefined.

I'm using these pieces to document the beginning of my growth into the articulation of my perspective. Including my socialization and the components of my thought process reflecting all, but assuming nothing. Abiding by an analytical nature, I take note to emotions and subjects that I've suppressed as issues, and acknowledge that I am plagued by them, although I deny them power. During this process I grow into acceptance of my vulnerability and us the works as resolutions to my conflicts. Allowing my work to grow to represent accurate symbols of my past and a benchmark to my growth.

3

Through art I create a realm of understanding; exploring the relationships between self and environment, by defining contributors and developers of my perspective. By examining my own socialization process, stemming from an assimilated culture of: experiences, memories, life lessons, and people: I begin to understand my identity as an artist. Through utilizing various mediums and processing to produce art of the same theme, 1 find that similar thoughts can be articulated differently. I mentally process through my art to find relevancy in common and foreign themes and contexts, using myself and those within my immediate community as a frame of reference.  Through my examination of culture and its contextual meaning, I focus less on racial and class identity and directly on the personal adaptations to life, creating a parallel of cultural understanding. My works document emotions and subjects that I’ve suppressed as issues, as well as cross references to Christian, psychological, and afro-centric themes. Themes that represent both an issue and solution to my development, and are ambiguously depicted to reflect my abiding nature to acknowledge all, but assume nothing. During this process I’ve grown into acceptance of my vulnerability and us the works as visual acknowledgements and resolutions to my conflicts of identity and ideals. Allowing the development of my art and perspective to stand as a symbol of my past and a benchmark to my growth .