Visual Art Matters
Artist Statement: 04.10.74/redone 22.09.04 I am a visual recorder of all that I have imagined. As a visual artist, my greatest challenge is to communicate the complex imagination, in a beautiful simple abstract image. I am trying to depict images that may be incomprehensible but are always enticing. My visual paraphernalia is the purest record of my inner life and dreams. I am intrigued by the images the mind creates that may appear lifeless, but are inspired by nature. I have chosen the abstract image for two reasons. With the invention of the camera and all it derivations, hand reproduction of reality to me, is a waste of time. The imagination is the real mother lode that I believe should be tapped. In addition I am intrigued with capturing reality using the camera. The visual reality I am trying to create, is a world that is steadily vanishing. This reality, is a simple rural landscape that existed before people and technology changed it forever. This image of reality I am hoping will transport the viewer temporarily to a time and place where we once lived in harmony with nature. My sincerity is subsumed in my work and it needs no other abstract entity to describe it, such as the written word. Hopefully, my images will inspire beautiful feelings.
THE WRITTEN WORD AS A FORM OF
INSPIRATION
one
what makes it
one
is it alone
the uniqueness
the metamorphosis of it
a chain
is the advanced
one
a joining of units
(no such thing as a
unit)
everything has a connection
one
is the
macro and micro
it is
positive & negative
Ted
W. Shado 04/10/74
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STATEMENT:
Compiled 06/02/78 (from statements since 04/10/74) rewritten 16/03/03
08.10.06.
PROFESSION: Purveyor
of visual paraphernalia
(i.e. artist)
NOTE: I have refrained from the use of the
words art and artist, because the pejorative implications of these words in our
society are ill suited to my needs.
ON
AIM: I
am a visual recorder of all that I (and hopefully my species) have imagined.
The
P.V.P. for me, must work with what he always had, but is losing still, his greatest
tool, his imagination. I am trying to depict things you cannot understand but
are enticed into.
I believe this to be
the finest acceptance of role in life.
ON VISUAL PARAPHERNALIA:
It, has no rules
It
is like life
It
is alive or dead
It
is sincere or insincere
My visual paraphernalia is the purest record of my
inner life, my imagination. I am intrigued by the image the mind creates
without obvious representation of life but with the ability to create a world
existing in space, hitherto unforeseen.
ON
ABSTRACTION: Described as the abstract or
symbolic. My work embodies itself and its ideas.
I
have chosen the abstract image for two reasons:
-With
the invention of the camera and all it derivations, hand reproduction of
reality alone is a futile waste of time.
-The
imagination is the real mother lode to be tapped ad infinitum.
ON
SINCERITY: My
sincerity is subsumed in my work it needs no other abstract entity to describe
it (such as the written word).
ON
THEORIES: These
ideas are needed to justify placing a value on works of art, in spite of a lack
of communication with the art object.
ON
STYLE:
The style of my work shall be determined by posterity after I am deceased.
ON DIFFICULTIES IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION:
There have been difficulties because; we have
become prisoners of 1984 (in the Orwellian sense). There pervades a, Do not even
think about it attitude, (there is no time) fake it. We are Prisoners of
Technology, and the television, and we have lost control of our imagination.
Mans greatest weakness his vanity is played upon lustfully.
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WHY NOT COMMUNICATE?
We are so egotistical we will not accept anything
we can not identify with.
WHAT DID
IT?: Television
de-intensifies the attention span. It is an escape mechanism, in that, it
forces the eyes, the ears, and the conceptual mechanism, to perceive an
altered, deified awareness of reality. The humanity is taken away, and one
experiences, a false sense of control, and one is ultimately robbed of ones
most precious gift, ones imagination.
LAST
LINES: Visual
art is better off than the other arts because it has developed exponentially,
whereas the other arts have had a linear development. We spend substantially
more time reproducing than producing, the original image.
WHY DO
IT?: I
neither enjoy nor am satisfied with work completed. I only enjoy work I am
doing. One can only caricature life in its infinite majesty.
ENOUGH
SAID