From around the age of six and throughout almost the whole of my childhood, I had the recurrent nightmare that I had somehow-due to the clumsiness of my actions-broken the moon into an infinite number of minute,irregular pieces; It being my solitary task to correct my awkwardness by reconstructing the shining fragments back to their original state before anyone else could notice.
The claustrophobic dark strength of this repetitive dream was not in the nature of any visual aspect-but in the horror of the futility of the overwhelmingly impossible task laid out before me, coupled with the emerging sense of panic at the unchangeable nature of my guilt. Though the nightmare became less frequent with time and subsided with the arrival of adulthood, I can still easily bring to mind the emotions that surrounded this vision that perpetually woke me in outright terror.
Unfinished as of 8/08
If it's necessary to talk of main influences then this nightmare is probably it. Twenty years of following ever decreasing circles of indecision and doubt has lead me to this simple conclusion. The experiences of passage of time has left me with a myriad of essential-as yet-unfulfilled ideas and concepts; A thousand abortive technical failures has left me with all the necessary skills to make my ambitions a physical reality with the surety that my techniques are a matter of choice through experience and not a case of resting on the simpler or safer option.
Technically, my aim is to pursue increasingly complex goals which are contained within a simple, iconic singularity; A baroque minimalism.
By maintaining and perfecting a fine balance of approach, concept and delivery; And by pushing my personal limitations simultaneously in all directions-it will lead me to produce work of magnificent universal relevance with an inseparable, microcosmic/macro cosmic simplicity and intricacy. My ultimate purpose is to expose a comfort and beauty in the claustrophobia of the contemplation of the individual atoms of personal infinity and that any reflections on the curse of the prospect of a solitary eternity should hold no horrors.
So far I have only created pointers to the true possibilities of my capabilities. The images I have now are merely sketches and direction markers indicating the direction for the increasingly ambitious projects I have every intention of bringing into being. If every artist and indeed, person does in fact get between five and ten good years where everything is as it should be and all the collected pieces easily fall into place then I'm confident that I'm at the beginning of mine.
All that remains now is to find the funding for the space, materials and time that will allow me the necessary freedoms to follow the job through to it's conclusion. In a society where it has to be accepted that only money can buy any semblance of these freedoms, raising these finances will possibly be the highest problematic hurdle of all.
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http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Steven+Storer/95001.html
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/saleroom/index.php?showpic=916624&type=1
www.picturethis-framing.co.uk/forsale.php
http://www.facebook.com/stevenstorer
"Style assumes and informs the contrast between form and content, it is the surface of an underlying structure"-Plato.