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DERRICK FLUDD
Lives and works in in new york, ny, Usa
 http://dfludd.com
artist contact
 mail@dfludd.com
A THOUgHT TrAPPed In dreAM sPACe,
2005 acryLic on canvas, stone, oiL BaLL 30x30 in. /76x76 cm.
HIgHWAY TO THe sUn,
2005 acryLic on canvas, stone, oiL BaLL 30x30 in. /76x76 cm.

I view art as the symbolic process of thought and perception in this type of road map etching to memory the impression of experience.)
way art has the ability to explain all experience conscious and uncons- This would be the essence of this series. Random Thoughts is the
cious through expression and symbolism. The Series Pathways is an first work that keeping true to the process of thought is consistently
attempt to explore this symbolic process by viewing the very creation re-configurable hence (random) and is an attempt to bridge the evo-
of thought itself as seen through a kind of stilling of the mind. i.e. (If you lution of thoughts with the physical evolution of the work itself. On the
could imagine being able to view the process of mind as it contemp- artistic front every artist who picks up a brush makes a determination
lates ideas or perceptions and document the neural pathways those of the Path the brush will follow, the painting is a culmination and
thoughts and perceptions traveled the colors they ignited as cognitive distillation of pathways.