Artist's Statement 04 - updated 16/09/08

THE WRITTEN WORD AS 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 separate unit)

everything has a connection

one

is  the

macro and micro

it is

+ and -

Ted W. Shado 04/10/74 revised 16/09/08

Artist's Statement03-update

STATEMENT: compiled 06/02/78 (from statements since 04/10/74) rewritten 16/09/08

PROFESSION

I am a purveyor of visual paraphernalia (i.e.artist)NOTE: I have have tried to 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 understanding of the visual media.

ON AIM

I am a visual recorder of all that I (and hopefully my species) have imagined. The P.V.P., must work with what he always had, but is losing rapidly, his imagination. I am trying to depict things you can't understand but are enticed into The difficulty level is high but very rewarding. 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, hither to 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 PHOTOGRAPHY (revised 29/10/08)

Capturing realism is best done with a camera. Since it's invention in the ninteenth century, hand rendering of reality is redundant and a waste of time (for me). I am interested in trying to convey with my photographs a time that is long gone; a time where machines, electricity or wires do not exist. The horse is the definition of power and man and women were tied to the earth.

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. Images that are deeply experienced do not need explanation or theories. It is much more important that the viewer interprets an idea that is relevant to their intellectual needs.

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 Don't even think about it attitude, (there's no time) fake it. We are Prisoners of Technology, and the television, and we have lost control of our imagination. Man/Woman's greatest weakness, vanity is played upon lustfully.

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN

We are so egotistical we won't accept anything we can't identify with. The visual recipient may not wish to be drawn in to the intellectual banter of an image that is non-descriptive.

WHAT DID IT    

It is my sincere feeling and belief that Television de-intensifies the attention span. It is an escape mechanism, in that, it forces one's eyes, 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 one's most precious gift, one's imagination.

LAST LINES     

Visual art is more advanced 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  OR WHAT MOTIVATES AN ARTIST(P.V.P)   

I neither enjoy nor am satisfied with work completed. I only enjoy work I am doing. The act of doing visual images with the possibility of creating an image never before seen is enticing and joyful. Capturing a split second of an image that a trained and experienced visual purveyor may witness with the imagination is a sincere and truthful reason for existance. One can only caricature life in its infinite majesty.

ENOUGH SAID