Neo 2

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About Neo 2

Growing up in the northern United States, a world of ice, snow and clouds, I was often transfixed looking at mysterious patterns: blue shadows made by wind on the surface of a snow covered field, cracks and bubbles in black ice, the ripple of water and the meander of a stream or the patterns made by clouds. I became interested in the way that these visual phenomena affected me; engaged me in the act of seeing. I experienced a sense of inner peace and connection with the larger world during these interactions. Viewing became a state of meditation. I want to create art that recreates this feeling for the viewer. Work that operates as directly on the viewer as nature: objects, that when viewed, stimulate an intense but mysterious emotional response, a response that avoids semiotic interpretation. I believe that work made via repetitive processes can be imbued with the meditative state required of the artists to make it. For certain viewers the use of subtly and repetition draws them into the work, it allows them to enter into a suspended state, a mysterious state of uncertainty. To explore repetition and the effect that it has on the viewer, I make marks in enamel on a clear glass layer, add another layer and respond to the first, and so on, finally stacking and firing them. The work exists as a record of the meditative and repetitive mark-making process that created it and also as a mysterious object in and of itself. I try to allow myself to be an element in the process, like a stone in a stream, diverting the current, reflecting the patterns made in nature and the also the process that makes them.