LandEscape Art Review // Special Issue | Page 54

Land scape
Lee Musgrave
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
… however , more importantly it has grown to firmly establish itself as a major artery in the heart beat of contemporary art . Further , it has become the most democratic and prolific art tool available worldwide . I do , however , worry about how stable , enduring and archival digital images really will turn out to be … to say nothing about how easy it is to alter or delete .
Your approach is hallmarked with an hybrid combination between abstraction and explicit reminders to everyday life ' s objects : as you have remerked in the introductory lines of your artist ' s statement , you use to crush or cut up waste materials before discarding them and you experiment with this random assortment of stuff : this mix triggers unexpected reactions in the viewers , that are walked into an area of intellectual interplay in which are urged to question their usual relationships with a variety of objects that you recontextualize , and bring to a new level of significance . This aspect of your approach reminds us of the ideas behind Thomas Demand ' s works , when he stated that " nowadays art can no longer rely much on symbolic strategies and has to probe psychological narrative elements within the medium instead ". While conceiving Art could be considered an abstract activity , there is always a way of giving it a permanence that goes beyond the intrinsic ephemeral nature of the concepts you explore . So we would take this occasion to ask you if in your opinion personal experience is an absolutely indespensable part of a creative process . Do you think that a creative process could be disconnected from direct experience ?
On the one hand , I can ’ t see how one could recognize that a creative process has occurred without first having had a direct or similar experience to compare it to . Then again , direct experience is just a term . Perhaps all thought and actions are creative processes for all occur in their own time and space to never be repeated in exactly the same manner .