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-Michael Shultis 2011-2013
I’m interested in forced ignorance. A state of emptiness, where content
and formal devices are vacant, allowing for something viscerally human. This is
evident in ancient cave painting. These artists lived in a time without art history
and an established means of depiction. Instead, their minds were free to create
anything their subconscious desired. It is this freedom that I am after. Having
been educated in art history and the traditional method of painting, this
ignorance has become unattainable. However, my attempts at the impossible
produce something real and human, a subconscious honesty. My work exposes
these truths and, as a result, shapes my understanding of self. Recently, I’ve
uncovered a monster within me. Cultivated in my soccer-jock past,
from an internet porn generation, currently I am looking to expose and
reject it.
-Mike Shultis 2013
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