Artist Statement: Towards an Aesthetics

To me, all existence is art and art points towards an aesthetics. How beautiful and extraordinary is life? Art condenses reality, answering with colors, shapes, movements, words, stories, et cetera. Currently, poArt (a painting + poem) and photos serve as my primary forms of artistic expression.

My artistic training and expression represent a personal modality of living. Rather than conform to views of an art school (beyond classes up through high school), I attempted to learn from the masters. For this I frequented all great museums in the U.S. and Europe. Experimentation with numerous styles led to the development of poArt where I sculpt color with my hands, express a poem, and detail with watercolor pencils.

If asked why I do poArt, I answer that this is how I survive painful exasperations strewn throughout our modern realities. Some artists feel immense joy and try to express this. poArt allows me to personally survive the pain. Often, painful shards collect so strongly that I metaphorically feel choked. How can I survive but to explode into the colors and words of a poArt. Themes relate to current events, whether being intimately mine or those felt within society at large.

The photography exhibit attempts to open portals of imagination. How can a moment from the click of a camera's shutter encompass a world of depth and breadth as if in ‘a grain of sand?' My photos want to share how extraordinary life is. Unique perspectives can present a quality that refines the quantity of surrounding experiences. Enjoy a photograph of a sunset, tide pool, landscape, or portrait. Infrared or ultraviolet adaptations, along with the “light painting” creatively accentuate facets of reality for viewers.  

A real artist fulfills a necessary responsibility to society: feel and transform the collected, condensed depths of pain, and/or profound angles of existence, hitherto neglected or left desperately unresolved. Intense energies can motivate and inspire. What aesthetics survive? Provide significance! Struggle through saturated doldrums, curve beyond distractions, spread synergistic wings, breathe and demonstrate how to breathe again. Let us plug in. Access a source and perceive potentially endless horizons. Enhance learning and ultimately forge personal growth, whether subconsciously or consciously realized. Open the mind and realize the aesthetics of a moment, a lifetime, a globe, a universe.

Scot Aaron August 2005