You are in [this] for two reasons: one, to understand what you mean by being alive; and two, to figure out how you’re going to say it...
― Barry Lopez
Artist's State(ment)
Poems, hymns, songs, saxophones, banjoes set the tone and build the house within which these paintings, these drawings are made. The work is borne out of a free-floating longing, the grief of suchness; the whatness of ordinary objects; the ineffable mystery hidden in reality. It is as if the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour were extruded through a Zen kōan into a space where wildness and culture, its myths, rituals, music, and poetry come together like spokes in the hub of a great wheel. Having been painting and drawing for several decades, I feel that I am finally making some progress; recently awakening to, or rather, more fully realizing, a visual language that I can trust; that I can have faith in. Which is to say, that although my doubt is boundless, I persist in turning the wheel.
― Barry Lopez
Artist's State(ment)
Poems, hymns, songs, saxophones, banjoes set the tone and build the house within which these paintings, these drawings are made. The work is borne out of a free-floating longing, the grief of suchness; the whatness of ordinary objects; the ineffable mystery hidden in reality. It is as if the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour were extruded through a Zen kōan into a space where wildness and culture, its myths, rituals, music, and poetry come together like spokes in the hub of a great wheel. Having been painting and drawing for several decades, I feel that I am finally making some progress; recently awakening to, or rather, more fully realizing, a visual language that I can trust; that I can have faith in. Which is to say, that although my doubt is boundless, I persist in turning the wheel.
