Statement

My artwork is an
exploration of psyche - being a visual documentation. There are many
corridors of consciousness to tread, all being marked with our own
personal symbology, although there seem to be similar structures that
make the foundations of human consciousness. Hence the concept of
collective psyche.

But the conscious
mind, with its prejudices, has a tendency to screen out what it has
been conditioned to dislike. Many archetypal images are now encrusted
with the baggage of eons and appear confusing.

The
direction of my work is an abandonment of these images. My art is an
abstraction of my experiences, or is it perhaps a more faithful
reproduction?

Abstraction is to
objectify an experience. Experiences only hold meaning once they have
been assumed by the self and thus made subjective - relative to
oneself. Hence any common language, be they sounds or images are,
abstract. Abstraction is the universal exchange of communication.

The
subjective reality of my work, is a je ne sais quoi, a de ja vu, a
persistence of memory, that will strike me at the oddest of moments. It
is the sensation that is familiar, and environment and situation that
were until that moment familiar or real, but now unfamiliar or unreal.
The moment is surreal.

It is in that moment that we experience illumination, or if it eludes us, a nightmare.

Leo Plaw