Art

Symbols & Shapes

Symbols play a large role in art and language. They help the viewer interpret information and build a relationship so a story can be told. By making a connection with these fundamental shapes a rhythm and movement can be interpreted as a whole. After taking this initial step more details become relevant and meaning can be extracted. As the layers, textures and colors begin to evolve they build a more personal relationship. Taking these steps hopefully leads one to a deeper understanding of themselves, maybe even questioning something within.

These shapes not only create symbols and meaning they also help to establish form, structure and movement. The square and circle in their simplest form create the basic structural elements. However, on a larger scale these objects can be identified as a window and movement. Used together they form a transition, growing and establishing a mark. Ultimately trying to create a balance and rhythm.

Through life we experience relationships at different levels, each leading to a different fundamental understanding of ourselves. As we transition through these relationships we place value upon what is important and what is not. In the end trying to find a balance to the ever evolving process of life.

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  Troubled Waters

  oil on canvas

  Cycles play a big part in our lives and this is the primary inspiration for this piece. Through shape, form, texture and color the surrealistic qualities create a continual motion that emphasizes some of these cycles.

  Through cherub like qualities our young project a stingingly honest insight into life's most delicate cycle – life & death.

  Being able to reflect into the larger aspect of how we interact with some of these cycles is important. We can begin to understand that we have more control over many aspects of our lives.

  As a social responsibility we should make conscious efforts to control our impact, which in turn, improves the cycles.

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  Hawkshaw -
  A Span of Time

  mixed medium

  This large scale piece was commissioned through the University of West Florida Archaeological Institute for The Gulf Power Company corporate headquarters. At 25' in length, this was my largest piece to date. The 3 mile bridge from Gulf Breeze to Pensacola is used as a metaphorical timeline to showcase over 2000 years of artifacts from the varied inhabitants of this piece of land.

  Before building on this site, The Gulf Power Company worked with archaeologists from UWF to uncover what Dr. Judy Bense stated is “a dream site.”

  The Gray House, as it was named, was one of many buildings that inhabited this bluff overlooking Pensacola Bay. Other artifacts include a fully intact light bulb and paper records from some of the more recent residents.

  Traversing back in time, some of the other items found on the site were toys such as a jack and pieces of porcelain dolls. The map at top is a copy of downtown Pensacola during the Colonial period and shows many of the structures that were adjacent to the Hawkshaw site.

  Pieces of pottery, plates and fine china were found in the refuse piles giving the archaeologists a better understanding of the daily lives from the varying inhabitants.

  The first inhabitants of this site lived here over 2000 years ago and left behind shell tools as well as pieces of broken pots giving a glimpse into a culture long past.

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  Childish Dreams

  mixed medium

  “Reading, writing and arithmetic taught to the tune of a hickory stick…” It is no secret that the value of the arts in our educational system is very overlooked.

  By neglecting the cultural benefit of this intrinsic ability, it only creates a disfragmented understanding of who we are and where we come from.

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