Text and Images by Tm Gratkowski

Beyond Merzbau, ready-mades, combines, deconstruction, and mash-ups lies a tangle of fragmented vignettes, patterns, and colors where one encounters thought-provoking words, images, and stories and the experience is visceral as well as intellectual.

What, at first, may appear as formal aesthetics will, upon closer examination, reveal a subject matter that is often complex, challenging, and sometimes difficult to take issue with. Like a first time visitor to a new city or country the process of discovery becomes evident as the viewer becomes engaged in a visual dialogue trying to interpret this new imagery.

Making sense of this new media saturated environment is like trying to see the forest through the trees- layer upon layer upon layer of information as a treacherous battlefield in which navigation is only possible by knowing where you are at, where you have come from, and where you are going.

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Borders

Whitewashed

Memorium

Less hope Less

Ephemeral Floral

Transplantman

Sudden Dissapearance

DEBRIS FLOW

JAM

SANTA ANA WINDS