Who I Am…

17Jun10

A couple years ago, I created this.

I was proud of it at the time. I had messed around with creating artwork for awhile, but this was the first time I felt that I had created something that needed interpretation from the viewer. Yes, I know it’s a grouping of 3 buildings. But, why did I create it? It wasn’t until recently that I stumbled upon it and noticed that I titled it, “Conformity.” And then I realized this was how I viewed the world. Black and white. The gray was to only fill in the gaps. It was as if the walls were so rigid and so perfect that it pleaded to be shattered. But, I first had to shake up and shatter the way I viewed the world before I could shake up my creativity.

A friend reminded me of something I once told her, “Reality is the distortion of mankind.” We spent numerous nights discussing philosophy. We asked each other questions that had no answers. We challenged each other to confront the things we blindly accepted. We ended up getting married. I opened my mind and saw things differently. I finally had a path in life I could sprint down instead of clumsily drag my feet across. I guess you could call it passion. I had never experience it before and it was intoxicating.

My name is Eli and my quest in life is to discover the secrets of the universe, but my only form of communication is creation.