ARTIST STATEMENT
I explore who we may be in a greater context beyond our cultural identity and limitations through a renaissance of portraiture, with a focus on Indigenous Wisdomkeepers; as an evoking mirror to our own interrelational remembrance and becoming, while creating a historical visual documentation of some of our most revered multi-cultural and cosmological lineage holders. I record their wisdom personally and craft audio-visual exhibition experiences as immersive sensory-visualization transportations into the guiding cognition of an extraordinarily interconnected consciousness of an Indigenous Wisdomkeeper, and inclusively open public accessibility beyond socio-economical barriers to catalyze awareness of our intrinsic belonging that seeds personal evolution and global resolution. I re-invent newer conceptualizations and experiences of art as anthropology; allowing for the cultural wisdom and ways of the Wisdomkeepers to be known beyond logical faculties and into energetic transmission and somatic perceptions of a greater interconnected reality, while also creating art as activism methods for reconciliation and reciprocation of portrait revenue and involvement with the cultural preservation and regeneration of these wisdom lineages. I paint and live in the wild, on the edges of societal frameworks, to explore and embody the art of musing the greater perceptual narratives of this wondrously interwoven existence, bringing into shareable exhibit experiences for others and to sow fertile intentions for our future generations.
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