Stephen Haning
Pagosa Springs, UNITED STATES
As an artist I admit to floating between worlds of reality and perception, peering into many concepts but seldom at home in any. My art work is therefore a scattered and biased report of these journeys. Not the world as it is or as it should be, rather possibilities of what may be.I do not ask viewers to accept theses depictions as true or even desirable. Sufficient would be the viewer turning an eye inward to the parts of themselves represented in the artwork. Here they may scrutinize whats been neglected, never unlocked, over embellished, or conventionalized. Whether they find jewels to cherish or masks to discard, I am unqualified to judge.I can ask that regardless of what’s discovered and whether or not we can love it, that we come to terms with it, and endeavour to acknowledge its right to exist.
Journals
The passing of an inspiration into imortallity.
I was not close to him, but he did hold a vauable place in my heart and mind. He was the wise art instructor, I but a student that happened to be fortunate enough to have him for Theory and Asthetics his last year of teaching before retireing. / Stanton Englehart passed away 4/23/2009. The art world of the region will miss his person but will forever see him in the landscapes before us and in our…
