Empathy & Alchemy
everything matters because
everything hurts someone
somewhere as it is mattering
we became all we carried into the mast
migratory patterns given to the love again
a way to end this secrecy of suffering
cut a door in the wolf
so we can retrieve our dead
for a world that matters
CAConrad, River Rail
I found the poet CAConrad’s work rather late, but they give the words that I do not have. I could write the longest artist statement but “cut a door in the wolf so we can retrive our dead for a world that matters” from their poem River Rail fully sums up my practice. That is what I am doing,: in my studio, with my paint, oil, turpentine, water; I am cutting a door in the wolf to retrieve our dead for a world that matters. I dont beleive it is useless to paint while the world is on fire. Because everything matters. And good painting is anti-violence.