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2. Artist's Statement

This piece, Thought Processing, uses bold shapes and markings along with reacquired images to continue the conversations started by artists of both the Abstract Expressionist movement and the PopArt movement. It is intended to create a contemporary bridge from notions of engineering and technology to those of creativity and art, through an abstraction of the common thought process in which participants of both disciplines must partake.

This is represented through a schema of a typical chemical engineering process, a flow diagram. Different thoughts and ideas are reacting together, and different inspirations are entering, leaving, and coming together. When you are creating a final project or coming to a final decision, you have to filter out the unnecessary images and sounds and textures that are entering and leaving your mind. Maybe you have a strong emotion that you wish to channel. You recycle out the parts that you might use later, for example if a color is striking to you but the shape of the object will not serve a purpose, and carry these along until you have reached your decision or goal.

Some markings are fun and eclectic, whereas other streams are more tumbled and strong, almost stressed or frustrated, such as the stream at the bottom center. If you follow the image from left to right, in the end you are left with a bight image that pops out at you, against the rest of the piece. You have reached the end; your thoughts have been processed. 

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