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For myself and my intentions, a fine balance between a high technical skill, an original approach to production and a courageous imagination within art is vital.

If the artist is going to attempt to convince the skeptic of the pleasures of art appreciation then this equilibrium and at least the pretense of a 'God given' gift or a physical talent that has been honed through intensive effort is of a primary importance. The appearance of an object that is technically impressive draws the viewer's initial interest to the mysticism of it's surface detail and then naturally onwards towards a deeper understanding of the emotional or intellectual properties of the work. If the the artist is to proclaim to endeavor to bring contemporary art to a wider audience and to introduce innovative techniques and philosophies-particularly amongst groups who ordinarily dispel fine art as having little importance in their lives-the work should appear to exhibit a creative/imaginative skill that stands alone as a powerful, emotionally

charged, visual object purely within itself. If the technical/idealogical balance is as one then the viewer should intrinsically be aware of the abstract ramifications (either personal to the viewer or subjective to the artist) of the work without the need for the presence or dialogue of it's creator...This I believe is the measure of success. Standing alone in it's silence, a visual artwork is a dialogue within itself and shouldn't need the limitations of an explanation, regardless of how pertinent the supposed explanation may be.

There is a hook in the satisfaction of being impressed. With the execution of the perfect balance of all factors, the mode of manufacture and idealogical content can become indistinguishable; Allowing the most supposedly controversial of concepts to be introduced with a validity that has the potential to begin to ease open the closed doors of the most stoic of minds.

Quite simply, modern contemporary art should create an atmosphere of mysteries to be solved, not of a seemingly incomprehensible empty elitism to be mocked and then ignored by the supposedly uninitiated.

2006 \/