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Artist Statement for Joseph Driscoll
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Artist’s Statement
Joseph Driscoll
“My ears are walled in by sounds of my own imagination.”- John Cage
Romantic Nihilism. I am media boy. The television dictated my style for many years. It taught me how to entertain. It brought me to short exciting visual worlds. Good for attention but not for span. I thought I was a young urban African American gangster when in reality I am just a straight up American whiteboy. I used to dream in cartoon. I enjoy all of the arts the others even more so than visual “sanction”. But in my family the only art a man could do was illustration. I wasn’t really into art and reading while growing up. I was into playing and curiosity. I liked drawing because it was something not everyone can do. The Western world is based on the predictability and monotony of the line. The line creates the shape of things. It creates boundaries. The human world is made up of a series of boundaries. Growth bursts boundaries. Art is I feel observing what is going on around you ands somehow growing a statement on it. It is your choice whatever you want to do, true expression. Art imitates me and vice versa. Life is too short not to have fun or joke every chance you get. I am a lucky man, for I have no real major suffering in my life. I wasn’t born into any , so I figured I’d try to stay away from it. But there is always a longing for that balance. I’m not going to lie I’ve definitely prefabricated some persecution and suffering in my day.
Desensitized. In your face, blatancy. Representative symbols. Youth. Bright colors that catch the eye. Quickness. Violence. This or that. Barriers and outlines. Channel surfing. Attention Deficit Disorderly. Music, Thematic music. These words describe the art I have been creating in my cubicle. I used a lot of oil paints because it is what I have and it is changeable. I am never satisfied. Is anybody? What can be done? Don’t fight the fun.
Give me a Beat....
I would always venture places, look closely at faces, try to win all the races. I get crazy on full moons; I watched a lot of cartoons. I was captivated by fame; I had many a nickname. For some reason I always felt that life’s a game, and I would play it any way I choose; cause I felt I could never truly loose. As long as I am alive. I’ve never been afraid to live my life in an outrageous fashion; but for some reason I minded if my outfit was clashing. Even if wrong I always had the answer;Unity is between the drummer and the dancer. You see I always wanted to be something others don’t see in me. I don’t think there is anything I won’t do that I want to. Learning new things is the key to pursue. I am a jack of all trades master of none. But hopefully my life in art has just begun. I’m young. I like to laugh so I get caught up in a lot of riffraff. Also I am rather ambiguous at times. I don’t want anyone to know me especially a stranger like you.
I guess I use the line and keep it rather simple; which is fine but not too great. But it is not too late. I am trying to expand away from the bland by mastering my right hand to make it do whatever my brain wants. Sometimes the eye taunts and my subconscious haunts, but every once in a while we all go on romantic jaunts. Especially when beauty flaunts. Which it usually does. Breaking boundaries in foundries. . God creates and it is man’s ambition to play God. Theory makes me weary. I want to be a television.
But nature is where it's at.
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