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Bryan Carson's Artist Statement

My artwork takes on two different directions, while the technique and media remain cohesive throughout. One area is focused on the integration of the human form and of the mysterious qualities of submersion, water and its beautiful creatures. It represents a stage in between reality and dreams or consciousness and unconsciousness when thoughts are neither fact nor fiction, but seem to be a combination of both. My approach in this theme has been to depict this middle ground of reality showing a connection between real, mysterious, and dreamlike objects; showing a transformation between each of these three stages. This approach tends to depict the weightlessness, fluidity, and movement of the human body and animals that occupy this dreamlike environment. My second area of focus is concentrated on how humans affect the life and behavior of animals in adverse ways. The most influential decisions I have made about this topic have stemmed from research and firsthand knowledge while traveling abroad.

All of my work has a focus on the foundation of drawing while adding layered elements through painting, printmaking, transfers, and other various media. In particular with works on wood, each wood substrate is carefully chosen so that the natural grain and knots become a part of the overall design and/or focal points in the work. Using this visual concept many areas of the wood remain unchanged and what was once negative space becomes the positive space to give way to the subtleties of moving water, skin tones, and/or texture of the human form.

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