Link goes to Automatic states on saatchi:
pen and ink
Automatic States, Pen And Ink Drawing On Hot Press Board /
Purchase a print here.
Invented Mythologies pen and ink drawing, with Vader /
My prediction for 2016 is that Vader will frequently sneak into my work, the biggest question for me is *aesthetically and philosophically how to better obscure him.
Grasping at a modern myth /
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller /
The tree of Life grew out of a tiny seed drawing, about 2x2 inches. I wanted to refine a process where I would plant a seed little drawing and allow it to grow into a full piece. The top image is the very first stage of the Tree of Life, the equivalent of a lump of clay. This moment is one of the scariest in art. It's like you are standing at the edge of a cliff and wish you could close your eyes and fly away. It turns out you need to climb up instead. Actually being at that very moment is never scary for me, I enter the tunnel space of my vision and the world around me becomes absolutely perfect. I generally do have a partial tunnel vision where things don't quite register and i could, without a penalty, focus on only one thing at a time. And no, there are no drugs involved ;) i could never drink or eat when I draw, they are incompatible activities.
