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What and who we are today is the reflected, accumulated, and re-reflected summation of our experiences. The art that I make is not only a recapitulative outpouring of my own past; it is also a retelling and revision of it. I like to work as a persona, as someone who doesn’t necessarily belong in this time, but with materials that are of this time.
The material itself, being not universally malleable, helps me in my interpretations by influencing the final form of the work.
My grandmother was a devout Anglican, and I remember I went to church with her every Sunday as far back as I can remember what Sunday was. Without realizing it, each week I was exposed to an aesthetic regime within four circumscribed walls, watching and participating in verbal, visual, and physical ceremonies that formed a narrative both hermetic and hermeneutic. As I grew older, I stopped going every week, and I began to realize that a lot had been omitted from the story as too complicated, too frightening, too ambiguous – too Manichean.
My art is what got left off the walls of the church of my childhood, and so I’m redecorating.
http://gjpearson.com/
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- See The World Without Leaving Home is hanging at Dales Gallery right now until the end of June.
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