ERDY
My art practice mission is to create work which takes the viewer into their past, present and future life, in relation to their past experiences and reflect and relate upon it in coordination with my work they are looking at. My art is trying to create a common portal to the viewers past experiences and future thoughts that are unfolding. I am doing this by portraying my experiences, memories and by imposing different types of uses of medium on the subject matter. I am giving a vague view of what I have been through or observed due to the impossibility of myself recreating all the senses I experience at the time of finding these "moments" which I wish to share hidden in my paintings. When the viewer comes into contact with the work, they are pushed into their own interpretation based on their own experiences which effect their perceptions.
I use painting to create these experiences for people to delve into. I am also very interested in the question of the limitations and advantages of painting in replicating those memories and how paintings react with one another and interact with the viewer in the gallery space. When creating a piece of art the questioning of the message being used is extremely important. I select carefully certain signifiers to represent what I want to convey about whatever memory topic situation I may be focusing on for the purpose of that individual project. To have the wrong signifiers in the art will just throw the viewer off. It will only confuse the viewer about what was originally intended to be communicated. When you see art you see the use or lack of color, transparency, texture, shape, form and positioning in the relative space. All of these are potential signifiers that function on different levels; they can be simply about themselves, or they can allow different degrees of access to what I intend to suggest. This process is made more complicated by the viewer's interpretation.
Overall I want to be making work which everyone can in some sense relate to, which provokes some kind of relational reaction. The aim is to give something to the viewer to take home and be so drawn into the work that even after seeing the piece they are still reflecting upon it.
Topic matters include current politics, dreams, experience of different cultures, ethnographical stances, social relations and the questioning of the media used to show this. All my work has underlining references to some sort of memory mapping. Without memory mapping of my own mind I would not be able to make art work. I am mapping my own trains of thought which I leave for the viewers to interpret out of their own personal experiences, analysis and perceptions.