In my latest work “Memory Fade” the images are not lost…they are spectral and the dance steps repeated over and over in time fights the Fade – a falling down that breaks the spine of the book of life (mankind). Nightime stay “Yes”…are there really “better angels of our nature” nasal and distant the sound of the migratory mind search – I need to relearn the route – the electricity has been losing juice – still a third rail running through my brain causing the 400 agitations of Julie…a real separation of colours…time gets rooted and stalls a little bit of grey matter dies – part of the Fade – the over medicated culture of society – the pharma fog contributes to our cyclic emptying of tragic past events and there it goes again before we know it we are in another former deja vu again man versus man versus nature the essence of the organics…the transformative alchemy…I need a tool to dislodge clogged synapses and arteries…perhaps a snake…ecstatics make the engine run dilation of the flesh…maybe it’s true through the emptying of self loss of memory the fade of pain mankinds reason
…bare witness to middle age human kindness through destruction. –carl e. brown
My work is best explained through this statement “Art through Alchemy”. Went to the University of Toronto & Sheridan College in Canada for “higher learning” …this started my foundation in the understanding of serendipity through organic experimentation…I have been refining and defining the organics of my soul’s diary ever since… Over the past thirty years, I have come to realize that, to a large extent, my workings in art have come out of a larger past, the discipline of alchemy. In alchemy, art is the imitation of nature in it’s mode of operation. The model for the alchemical work is nature and it comes to the aid of the “artist”, who has mastered its mode of operation and perfects with play that was begun with labour and effort …film, photography, holography, writing…they all give me a great sense of purpose and allow me to keep focus.” —Carl E. Brown