Paintings from the Invisible University PT 1
Artists Statement
This work is a synthesis of my many years working in a variety of styles
and media, both as a visual and performing artist, a reconnecting of my many diverse voices,
of letting go and allowing the painting to dictate its own process.
They are political in their declaration of the artist's obligation to carve out their own direction
despite the forms and styles dictated by fashion. They are a celebration of life pure and simple,
to work with ones heart and while I have along way to go, without ego.
It is not we who create performance but performance which creates us.
We are responsible for the preparation of the personality that we
present to performance. How we set it up for the performance, how we
visualize outcomes, program thoughts & texts, direct our emotions,
limber up our bodies and open our hearts. Above all we are responsible
for the quality of our focus. It is this which makes the difference
between great art and artifice.
-daevid allen
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