By Michael Kusie Saudade is a Portuguese word that loosely translated means joy from sadness. Saudade defines why I make artworks. Saudade implies a miraculous transformation.
Art appears both created and discovered.
The sad is recognized or discovered and joy develops or is invited out of the encounter. Although, I am not satisfied to leave this idea on its own, in this project I set out to complicate the transformation. My hope is for the artworks to hover between states. The final message is less important here than the process. The show's title GUSH expresses something out of control spilling over.