Jaime david Gober :: [Drawing]

2005

All art works are derived from a particular situation and consciousness, extracting observations and private histories from the artists' archive of personal experiences. But a moment that almost functions as a number of stills that are isolated from a film creating a new situation; the artist fills seemingly simple images with light and air to evoke a sense of purity and serenity; however, there is a sub-text, a slight twist, a sideswipe at conformism, a throwing off-balance both physical and mental; all art works are derived from a particular situation and consciousness, extracting observations and private histories from the artists' archive of personal experiences. The relationship of the fictional world to reality is reflected in the constant preoccupation with the relationship of photography to painting and of either to experience reality, each image emerges as a kind of performance of applying paint, rubbing, erasing, sanding and reapplication until the moment of completion, the current works represent earth art that celebrates how we're all connected on the one web of life; this is the crucial fact we've to realise, and this broader concept of creativity is Jaime david Gober's concept of art; our concept of art must be universal and have an interdisciplinary nature.