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Corporations_Dodalism_2005Corporations_Dodalism_2005
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Kensington_Dodalism_2005Kensington_Dodalism_2005
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Artist Statement
“Snapshots” was developed as the first official Dodalism body of work. The goal was to engage in a stream of consciousness doodle which would tread the line between the external events and internal thoughts.
The drawings center on a recognizable feature of the environment and evolve around it, with the exception of “Untitled” the last piece in the series. The locations are a reflection of my curiosity directed at creating in public places. Some reflect my usual hangouts, like “Kensington” market while others I sought out of an interest in seeing what would happen if I drew there.
“Subte is in my coffee” is the best example of internal ideas connecting to a live location. At the time I was reading a collection of writings by Subcomandate Marcos, leader of the Zapatista movement in southern Chiapas, Mexico. The ideas of this first postmodern revolution, his poetry and essays struck a deep cord with me. When I was starting to draw in a coffee shop I noticed a bag of coffee that was from Mexico and things took off from there creating a loose narrative of images that somehow related to what I knew and was moved by in the Zapatista movement.
“Snapshots” drawings unlike their predecessors are constructed out of symbolic elements. The drawings experiment with the possibility of a narrative within a stream of consciousness construct and incorporate text as a visual component of the work. The graphic exploration of thought and perception in “Snapshots” renders the external environment and the internal response to it.
