Fools Parade - Artist Statement

“Fools Parade” is a body of work that shines a bright light on the true pandemic of today’s society. We have given a throne to technology and become its court jester. When our devices ring, ding and ping, we drop everything. Instead of minding our childrens, we hand them its majesty. This pacifies them while we tend to our own devices.

Each painting of the series was created with the dimensions of a cell phone in mind. Fools Parade is bright, whimsical and seductive in nature born out of the dissection of an “old” iPhone, technology inspired geometrical shapes can be found within the paintings. At first glance, the work is playful and innocent. The electric colours and  unconventional shapes create an enticing visual. The viewer is flooded with a bombardment of abstract imagery that is nonsensical in nature. A drunken, awe struck, trancelike state arrises within the viewer. The audience, unbeknownst, as if lost in the cyber world, is utterly captivated by the lustrous paintings.

Fools Parade is a visual cacophony of our 21st century social construct.  Generations are hysterically more interested in their devices than the experiences unfolding in the real world before them.  Caught in the very monkey trap we built, the illusion of connection is all we have when we selfie, filter and post our faces.  As you take in the artwork the artist urges you to contemplate the questions, “Who are the fools”, “where is the parade” and “what is left sacred”?

“And the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made” - Sound of Silence written by Paul Simon