Spotlight Artist
Keith Allyn Spencer
West
Artist Statement
In an environment always on the edge of falling apart, things are held together with spit, grit, and the coping strategies you use to reap time, to make options, to retain hope. This use of available resources engenders hybridization, juxtaposition and integration.
While things might be created via slapdash, using whatever is at hand, attention is always given to nuances and details. Appearance and form take precedence over function.
A system of taste that is intuitive and sincere not thought out and self-conscious is foremost. By putting together or creating an environment sated with color, texture and patter; a rampant decorative sense draws its essence within the world of the tattered, shattered and broken.
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