"Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man? After posing the last of these questions the eminent zoologist G.G. Simpson put it thus: 'The point I want to make now is that all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless and that we will be better off if we ignore them completely.’"
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins referring to the publication date of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
The content within the questions and answers of this quote comprise the great majority of interests in my life and in my work. My perspective is that of a naturalist and within this view I pride myself on a synthesis of skills, materials, and ultimately theory. I began, and continue, this path simply, first by learning materials. Throughout this education and training, the greater context, or synthesis of each material and its property dynamics began to coalesce. Together, with the dynamics of material properties and the process of evolution through natural selection, with particular emphasis on evolutionary psychology, the passion and influence of my work was cast. As a ‘mixed-media’ artist my materials, again, coalesce to create my dialogue. That dialogue is about us, homo sapiens. Thus, fundamentally, through the study of behavior in nature and evolution, I strive to usher individual inquiry and perspective. |
