jlocke2451@hotmail.comIt is my journey, first and only, to understand myself and fellow man. Humility, honesty, imagination... These arguably innate qualities of humanity are what have led me to pursuing art as a career. Humility allows me to be curious, ask questions and understand perspectives that my ego would quietly slink away from. While honesty allows me connections that flourish or sometimes erupt, imagination gives me the power to heal and to see possibility in myself and those around me. These tools have been consistent in their growth, meaning they are not constant. Sometimes they recoil and contract, while other times they expand and disclose, but always, over time they are evolving. Just as a flower blooms or dies, or the stars change position or burn out, my ability to overcome obstacles with these tools ultimately relinquishes me to living in love or suffering alone. Having an awareness of both affairs at varying degrees in my current place with time and space, I am required to submit myself to the idea that it is my decision. I have found resistance in love attempts, embrace in darkness, the warmest of trust in togetherness, while the cold dependably leaves me sharp and forbidding. Aiming to convey these ranges through texture, transparency, sharp angles, and soft edges is my hope in each of the paintings. Art has become a vehicle that I find personally useful, albeit essentially toxic in origin. Through this conscious submission I am encouraged to explore past traumas, relationships and experiences. I fear, I despise, then adopt and desire, but always will deeply love this process of healing and growing. And I believe that when I find the tools and the time to understand myself, life becomes a magic participation with the divine.
