There are two different ways of looking at the world: you can walk on the path or you can walk through the hedge. and that's the beauty of art - that it makes you step aside from the normal way of walking or looking.
The point of my art is that I learn through what I'm making. I go to nature not to impose things upon it but to feed from it to try to understand what is going on.
Human presence is always there in what I make. I'm not trying to mimic nature. The things that I make are me. I hope they are sensitive to the materials and the place, and my body is a part of that.
For most of the time I use whatever is around. Normally I don't know even what I'm going to make that day as I go out. The day starts, I start by picking up leaves; it's a response to the weather, the light, and I will use thorns or spits not because I'm trying to play the primitive, but that's the best way to make the work. Find the materials and the means to work the material; there's a huge sense of freedom in that.
The works in this exhibition are of this moment – they have been made in a year that continues to be unpredictable and difficult for everyone. (from Matthew Brown Gallery release)
Here's a video created by an art teacher as a way of introduction. It's where I found the quotations.
Leaning Into the Wind is the invigorating portrait of an artist who has transformed his everyday lived experience into a series of gloriously artistic acts. (from OKCMOA)
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