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PHOTOGRAPHY NOTE: The Yunnan/Sichuan photos have been color managed for the web, but other photos remain to be converted, so they still have a weird color cast, especially the woodlands series.


CHRISTIAN:

My work varies greatly, and I try not to narrow my artistic impulse into a forced style or aesthetic functionality. As I make more and more work, certain themes develop naturally, and the work develops its own dialogue. If I have an overreaching purpose as an artist, it is to battle self conscious hipsterism and embrace color, ornamentation, humor, sex, history, poetry, and life in all its ridiculous glory. The natural world plays a huge role in my attitude towards society, and often forms the subject matter of my art. I am obsessed and in love with the variation and physical beauty of nature. To me, every plant and animal has a character and a life that is equally as powerful and meaningful as that of any human. I strive to photographically capture nature in a way that does justice to this character, as well as to the emotional impact of the moment. Music and poetry are to me perhaps the most soulful and penetrating forms of art, and I try to incorporate a lyrical sensibility into my visual work. I feel extremely lucky to have seen a good part of the planet, and I think that the color in my art stems from an unabashed exploration of life in many places; a confrontation of the good, the bad, the foreign and the familiar. Mexico will always be close to my heart, and I'm constantly surprised at the fact that I've lived away from Latin America for so long, and yet the place of my birth is constantly emerging from my subconscious mind. I don't choose to make art that looks Mexican, but oftentimes a Mexican aesthetic seems to guide my creative instinct. All that being said, I also have an impulse to not take myself or anything else unduly seriously, and I applaud the departure from modernism and stark utilitarianism in art and architecture. I think that beauty and humor have a greater function in society than any concept, method of organization, or intellectual discourse. We are all lost, swimming in a vast broth of random acts and tangled reactions, and art is a way for me to chart my way through the soup.