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Good Things Installed at clients hauseGood Things Installed at clients hause
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Good Things one of three, Acrylic paint on canvassGood Things one of three, Acrylic paint on canvass
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Good Things two of three, Acrylic paint on canvassGood Things two of three, Acrylic paint on canvass
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Good Things three of three, Acrylic paint on canvassGood Things three of three, Acrylic paint on canvass
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Wakan Tanka and the orgy of life, dodalism mixed mediaWakan Tanka and the orgy of life, dodalism mixed media
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Wakan Tanka and the orgy of life, dodalism mixed mediaWakan Tanka and the orgy of life, dodalism mixed media
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Wakan Tanka and the orgy of life, moon dodalism mixed mediaWakan Tanka and the orgy of life, moon dodalism mixed media
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Wakan Tanka and the orgy of life, the island dodalism mixed mediaWakan Tanka and the orgy of life, the island dodalism mixed media
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wakan tanka human and the drowning whale dodalism mixed mediawakan tanka human and the drowning whale dodalism mixed media
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Clusterfuck Universe mixed medial dodalism Clusterfuck Universe mixed medial dodalism
Artist Statement
In the “Pre-Fluid” period the focus was on the use of color and mixed media. There was a need to simplify the process of drawing which usually tended to be a dense composition of abstracted elements scribbled with a ballpoint pen. Secondly the possibility of using a narrative as a way to guide the creation of the drawing was an exciting and new direction in Dodalism.
The first drawing “Clusterfucked universe” was guided by the theme of a chaotic universe with exploding supernovas and planets laid out in a somewhat geometrical pattern. Using crayons was fun as large areas got filled with scribbles of colour, an interesting continuation of a method exclusively executed with pens up to this point. The marks themselves were direct references to the story that was unfolding as it was being drawn. One moment a planet would be distinguished by a scribble of colour and the next moment a scribble of a supernova explosion would cover the planet up. The drawing was finalized by bumping up the chroma with acrylic paints which led to some great optical mixing and glazing effects solidifying the decision to further explore the mixed media possibilities.
The Wakan Tanka drawings are a tribute to Canadian Native art styles which I really enjoy. The fluidity of line, colour and textures used on a verity of surfaces imbedded with mythologies and stories are all things which I chose to reflect through this theme. I came across the persona of Wakan Tanka while doing research for an illustration I was working on for a band “Tonka & Puma”. Months later when the British Petroleum oil spill happened in 2010 I decided to respond by creating a large drawing which drew most of its narrative from a story by Carl Safina about a dolphin that was drowning having filled its lungs with oil. Adopting the Dodalism approach I started by creating a border out of random shapes which are associated with the four elements: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. The images within the boarder are symbolic elements representing the story as well as some of my personal comments on the human condition. A booklet was later made with images and writing related to the drawing which was distributed in a limited run around Toronto Ottawa and Montreal. Wakan Tanka and the orgy of life was a fun project used to further explore narrative possibilities and the use of mixed media. The shapes which originally were symbolic of the four elements were now treated as though each had its own personality something I also explored through an evolving series “Germs”.
The idea of shapes with individual personalities was applied in the next project “Good Things”. The crayons were used to establish a sort of a containment field with energetic curved lines tracing out a circle within a circle frame. The shapes within the containment field are an interpretation of a liquid swirling inside a jar. Having completed the commission I had a clear idea where I wanted to concentrate my energy for the next body of work which would be the “Fluid” series.
