James Seevers Art: August 2012

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Recent work

I thought I would add some quick, small things I've done over the past six months or so. Usually I don't spend more then an hour or two on these. Trying to keep my hands busy while I'm swamped with starting a nonprofit. Of course I also have a large 6 1/2' x 7 1/2' I'm working on too.

Artist Statement

All of my work stems from my relationship with the natural world, beginning with the land in and around San Mateo County. Memory and dream, as well as the physicality of stepping into these hills and forests, constantly inform my perception and representation of the landscape. In the past few years, my work has grown to include ideas as large as the entire universe, as well as concepts involving the smallest, most fundamental pieces of our being.

I attempt to flesh out the unseen landscape only experienced through other planes of existence. One articulation of this unseen landscape is the Line. Reduced to its most basic definition, a line is the space between two points. All human perception passes through the brain, a series of synapse firings, nodes, or “points” in space and time. When you look at my paintings, a causal relationship is formed, between the image and your brain. To trace the path of this relationship, is to draw a Line.

Modern physics is suggesting through Superstring Theory that the most basic pieces of our existence might not be particles or “points”, but multi-dimensional lines, curled in on themselves or straight, vibrating at numerous frequencies in as many as eleven dimensions.

Superstring Theory, the internet (and all of its billions of invisible lines and networks), a city map, its streets, lines drawn by my steps, computer circuitboards traced by electrical current, geometry as shape governed by unseen laws (mathematics), even writing itself is line as metaphor: The Line imbued with meaning.

Another recurring theme in my work could be called a kind of supernatural allegory. Physics supports the idea that there are types of energy and matter which occur throughout the universe, yet they can not be explained by our current understanding. I attempt to structure a loose metaphorical framework onto which these phenomenon might be placed using shapes which suggest the figure, and various animals that I have come to have a personal connection with.

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Thursday, August 16, 2012

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