Lee Patrick [Johnson]

This is what I am doing right now.  I am sick of over-analyzing my artwork.  I want to fabricate and dictate the function, concept, motivation, composition, color schemes, and forms through progression, process, intuition and compulsion.  I am bored with the way my sculpture has been photographed, installed, shipped, lit, utilized, experienced, viewed, grounded, static, pragmatic, forced, and over-analyzed.  I am attempting to divorce myself from my medical background and approach everything in new ways.  Through performance, aesthetics, concepts, colors, audience, site specificity, collaboration, context and interaction I hope to find something new that excites me.  I’ve currently been casting my face in multiple materials, making molds, making functional pottery, sculpting figures, making toys, playing with light, experimenting with plastics, studying public art, studying color theory, studying psychology and the arts, constructing building blocks/ non-predestined construction elements, glazing kiln furniture together, extruding forms/shapes, constructing wood mountings, breaking things and re-assembling them and all the while housing the projects together in a way that allows me to see my thought progression not as a multitude of objects but as a evolving thought.  I just know I must continue to fabricate  every angle I can, as fast as I can, and as hard as I can in order to deconstruct the plethora of metaphorical barriers ahead of me.  So yeah… I guess I’ll see where the combination of everything takes me.