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Artist Statement | ||||||||||||
 Antonio in his studio. Click here to view Antonio's resume |
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I paint because there is something inside of me that calls for expression. The passion that moves me to
create opens time to a larger political arena where reality, life, and beauty mix with my comparative frustration. My
painting is an escape from the mundane; the size of the canvas allows for a larger discovery of life where I push paint, push
wheelchair, pushing the canvas to a timeless spot of energy, to the point of infinite depth. I make a canvas dance, live, and even walk; something that I'm unable to do. Acrylic is the medium I use because I am a fast painter, a racer. I have a need to experience and understand the process of my painting to better comprehend the world, yet, as a creator, as an artist, I still get lost in my work. I paint, I do not write. My work is like life. You can never go back, never truly leave the moment. I can attain the higher thought beyond language through art, through creation. Life is funny. Had my lifestyle not changed, I might never have fulfilled my dream. My calling in this life is to create art, to be a conduit for beauty to enter into my world. This is not bullshit. This statement in itself is bullshit. | ||||||||||
