Push the Button

"Push the Button"9" x 12" x 1.5"Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 2023 ----- "Chromatic Hallucinations" Artist Statement: “Chromatic Hallucinations” is a body of work that focuses on the ideals of pattern.  It can represent many different things throughout humanity.  The people, the beliefs they follow, the natural world around you, the history of subjects and the traditions that have been followed.  Different colors and shapes vary meanings throughout different cultures, but the idea is carried down from generation to generation.  From birth to death, pattern is a part of everyday life and cultural practice.  The drive to recognize and form patterns can be from a glimpse into curiosity, discovery of new ideas and experimentation through everyday life.  Da Vinci found this “Way of Stimulating and Arousing the Mind to Various Inventions” so invaluable that he applied it not only visually, as a means of inventing landscape or battle scenes, but in musical matters as well.  The more pattern