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| "Gopher State" by: David Malcolm Scott |
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Often in contemporary art what you find is a loudness, a screeching and screaming;
an effort to jolt the viewer through the internal violence or mystery of the work. Another commonality of today’s art scene is the reliance on language and the written word to convey ideas.
As a conveyer of ideas, David Malcolm Scott seeks to convey a different role,
what Joseph Campbell called,” aesthetic arrest”,
that intake of breath or gasp when you see something so wonderful
it stops you in your tracks.
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Cities are one of mankind’s greatest and longest lasting inventions and are a complex web of people,
ecology, built objects, and circulation systems. They contain many layers and complexities,
juxtapositions of old and new, soft and hard; clashes of cultures and intentions,
and the constant tug between the built, the natural environment, and the to-be-built.
Artistically, I’m drawn to this complexity and through my education and life experience
have studied it and lived with it. Through the use of scrolls and other works
I offer a view of the urban world and try to convey some of the wonder and vitality
I feel when I look around me with an “artistic” eye.
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