Technology is magic. Art is magic. The world is magic. We live in a world of technology that we forget is magic and hides much of the magic of the world. Pixels of a place do not hold the magic of that place. Though, a painting can, or better yet, a series of them. Capturing that is something I wish to do, to spend as much time learning about and practicing as possible.  

There are many paintings that capture the magic of light with the help of dark, or the brightness of one color with the dullness of another. One spot of paint will look very different depending on what it is surrounded by. The same concept of contrast can also be used outside of the paint itself. Thematic contrast. The extraordinary and the regular. Technology and nature. Joy and despair. Utopia and dystopia. The out of this world and the mundane. Is going to the grocery store exciting? What if you took a rocket ship there? Now THATS an outing. What if they still gave you the same old plastic bags to carry the groceries? Is it even ok to put genuine 100% Moon Raised Moon Cheese in those bags? Our cars are explosion powered like a rocket ship and bananas travel nearly to the Moon and back to get to us. I won’t even get into the modern imperialistic dystopia that is banan- ehm, I mean Moon Cheese ranching, but isn’t it still a utopia to have such a commodity on our kitchen counter?  

Stories, metaphors, satire, statements, dichotomies, but I do not want to lose the magic in pursuit of those. Pursuing those is what I am and will continue doing in a series over the next two years. A series about a world that I can best explain by just doing the paintings, as that is easier than putting it into words, but to give a rough picture it’s somewhere between Wall-E and The Jetsons. These stories about an alternate world are a space to say anything I want to. I just need to focus on figuring out how to say these things visually. A new challenge, which is what I need in order to keep improving and that is my biggest goal.