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Artist Statement


Brian P. Weaver
Artist Statement
Burning Bridges


The irrational moments and activities of the everyday thoroughly interest me.  I find myself dumbfounded and wondering with a distorted and cynical perspective what the underlying implicit nature of our perception truly is.  I try to merge the psychological biases with societal ethic structures to reveal the inner workings and processes of the subconscious.  Through recognizable imagery that ostensibly discusses self-deprecation and loathing, anxiety, insecurities, fear, paranoia, and alienation I question the moral and sociopathic assumptions of society.  It is this absurd reality that I want to fully understand.

The forms have humanistic qualities and are diminutive in relatable scale.  The ceramic material built over an internal armature yields well to the additive and subtractive process I use in construction.  They are then finished with mixed media to appear more realistic and emotive color is highly considered in this process.  Theatrical qualities create the pseudo-mental environment for the figures and place them in a world alone and removed from others.  Dejected and vulnerable through isolation reiterates the emotional mental state that embodies the characters themselves.  A separation from our own reality removes any chance of redemption for the helpless creatures.

Through irrational, grotesque, ambiguous and abject imagery the viewer is forced into new and unfamiliar territory within themselves and their perceived idea of comfort and acceptability.  The emotionally weighted and abysmal sculptures reach a point at which logical and emotional certainties waver, and familiar realities are warped into a deplorable hopelessness.  The conflicting exploration is how we perceive reality through the profane veil of self and what the mind decidedly tells us is tolerable in righteous society.
 

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