Jeff Freeman Artist's Statement Painting is a process I am engaged in which allows me, by using this particular expressive medium, to make a personal inquest into the nature of lived experience. In the same sense that such a search for meaning involves tapping into the ebb and flow of whatever information and energy with which we come into contact, the notion of responding to and assessing the import and weight of such events requires a varied grid of decipherment involving such encryptions as we may know more by gyroscopic inclination, intuition and impulse, the osmotic functioning of some sort of psychic magnetometer, as well as by logical inflection and spiritual cartography.
Life is always in flux.
One searches for or seeks to reaffirm one's center. My work is a contemplative device that allows me to both decypher and encrypt various symbols and forms that have to do with my effort to find a reasonable balance between that which is static and that which is concrete. It also has to do with what I consider to be a ritual dance of various entities, which we each experience in a number of ways as they strive to assert themselves into our lives. The forms and symbols I use are references on that path and function like a magnet to iron filings. Influences and ideas come and go as we get nearer or farther from their influence, using our own energies, mind and spirit to either orbit or break free and move on.