“My work is a reflection on the containment of energy. It is a collision between the emotional and chaotic romantic temperament and the order and precision of neo-classical conventions. My vision represents a way of fusing unconscious imagery with the physical tangible world. Absurd romantic imagery juxtaposed against the “truthful”, and “factual” conventions of scientific illustration, express the hyper anxiety and information obsessed culture that permeates the world.”
“I trust and believe in the importance of developing a personal mythology, one that comes from the unconscious in the form of dreams and in the pattern and shape of folding and unfolding life experiences. Working within a realist context allows these unconscious impulses and energies to be thought of as actual things and phenomenon of our objective, detached experience. In an interesting way, this perceptual shift brings us closer to what is common and hidden deep within each one of us.” Josh Keyes