STEPHAN FOWLKES

painter sculptor

This body of work represents an ongoing investigation into the mechanics of interpersonal dynamics. I am fascinated with interactions between people, from any one-on-one to the dynamics within or between groups. Behavioral patterns and social conditioning play a large role, as do the masks we choose to wear, when determining the roles we assume in any given situation, with the exception of pure solitude. There is a social "norm" we are expected to live by, strictures we live within, with boundaries and standards--rules for how we are to act in any given situation. Yet inherently, we each possess unique traits suggesting an innate individuality no "norm" can harness.
By reducing my perceptions of these complex roles and relationships to their essence and translating these into an aesthetic language--the universal language of geometry--I manage to translate and break down my unique, personal, insignificant experiences, observations, and interactions into an aesthetic vocabulary which can be understood, interpreted and internalized by all.

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If I were a Blue Circle, amidst a formal crowd of blue circles, secretly harboring a desire to be a small, Red Circle, this is where I would want to live.
© 2003 Stephan Fowlkes