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Rewind I have been an artist for a long time. For me, art isn't a matter of choice, it's a vocation. It simply takes control of life, is life. Rewind reflects a small portion of my passage through life-some 15 years or so – as an artist. Making things, trying things, looking for a true narrative – a narrative of how life is, not through eyes alone but through the intestines, the sensitive hairs of the inner ear, the fine bones of the heel, the pulse that makes itself felt in places it should not be. Art is visceral and, at the same time, a desire to live outside of the body and to express and share that desire. These are simple terms, they suit me well. The wall of words created by art historians and critics is not a wall I'm interested in building as an artist. I would rather that words leave questions, create poetry. But, my subject matter comes from my life experience, close to the bone, and so, for protection I adopt externalized archetypes like chi-chi doggie whose shamanistic presence has been with me for so long he seems to be developing characteristics on his own. I believe in bold colours and strong images made subtle through layers of content. I see that life is not complicated, but it is dense, and that it is easy to get caught in this density-a tiny insect in a mass of layers, struggling to find the surface. I would rather see these layers as opportunities, evidence of the simultaneity, synchronicity, serendipity that abounds in life. And so, my work is about layers, whether in print as in the series Les coquelicots and Baphomet or in the video imagery of Surreal and Cityscape. To see the sense and beauty in diversity of Babel rather than a lesson in humility – to find beauty in the commonplace and to see that the extraordinary is common. - B. Baxter |
 Exhibition date: February 15 – March 31, 2007 Scheduled lectures: |
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