gnolan
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Showcase Artist Session
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1) What is your most significant work and why?
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I try not to qualify what I’ve done – hopefully the best (and most significant) is ahead of me.

2) How has RB been a part of your art?
It’s been my first involved exposure to the fire hose of personal graphics now on the internet. The amount and depth of stuff being produced, not just on RB, is pretty astonishing – we’re all part of the great democratization of visual art.

3) As far as your inspiration, would you say you are spontaneous or do you dwell on an idea before you begin your art?
I have some recurring thematic ideas that are always around – a lot of rough visual concepts get generated from that core and I usually produce something quickly without a lot of thought.

4) Art, a possible career or a hobby?
I’ve been around the graphics “block” for a few years – photographer, graphic design, video graphics, now multimedia design and programming. I still don’t consider myself an “artist” in the truest sense – I think it takes a lot more personal time and commitment.

5) Based on your work, how do you define art?
I’ve always seen hints and signs of larger forces in many, seemingly trivial things around me – alignments, coincidences, paradoxes, symbols, juxtapositions – something like the ancient Greeks ascribing meaning to the direction of a bird’s flight. So in that sense, art is an attempt to show and extract some meaning from those moments.

6) How would you define Core? do you think Core had justified & successful to promote artists and their skill? Any suggestion to make it better?
The base concept of the group definitely caught my attention – it seems to reflect these large paradoxical ideas that drive my work (science/religion, sacred/profane, rational/irrational, destiny/free will). I’m glad to be part of it.

7) Abstract or realism?
I don’t break it down in those terms – I use whatever visual means are appropriate for the idea or concept I have.

8) Who’s work do you admire? why?
I was a literature major in college and still find the works of Swift, Kafka, DH Lawrence and some of the Beats significant. Without meaning to offend visual artists in a visual art forum, I believe prose is somehow more potent and deeper than most visual still images.

9) Is your art a reflection of what you’ve been through or what you observed?
I can’t really separate the two in my mind.

10) Any of your worst/good work what you couldn’t finish/display for some reason?
I have some narrative writing based on travels I did at an earlier age – I’m not sure it will ever be ready for prime time or see the light of day.

Dear bubblers here you have the opportunity to ask random questions to our showcase artist at the end!
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