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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I grew up listening to stories that were rich in the cultural imagery of the South, which, in retrospect, I perceived to be incredibly surreal but wonderfully believable It is this background that both inspires my ideas and enables me to translate them into a form of three-dimensional figurative imagism that combines metaphorical apparitions within a literal context. In this translation, as in any translation, some things are inevitably changed, lost or added. For better or for worse, this is part of the process of storytelling. The figures in my work have become characters engaged in their own story -- spinning around an axis of personal, social and cultural idiosyncrasies. They are personal interpretations of various human attributes aimed at striking the harmonics of emotion through allegorical representations.
Tim N. Taunton
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