David McCullough: “Quantum Art: The Energy of Color”
May 17 – June 30, 2018
Artist’s Statement:
For the past forty-eight years, my paintings, sculpture, and works on paper have been concerned with describing the phenomenon of light in nature from an audio-visual perspective.
I have hiked and created art in National Parks throughout the U.S., especially at Native American sacred sites in the Four Corners ‘Canyon Circle’ area (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado), noting seasonal color changes and geological formations. I use these field trips in the park system to explore and record nature’s colorful psyche and geological spirit through the mediums of watercolor, drawing, and photography. These notations are the foundation stones of my abstract studio compositions. I use these natural insights to give my Taoist vision of art a special quality of coloration to describe her spirit and sacred character. I have made many comparative studies of the hidden spirit in our ecosystem, including rock painting sites in the Australian Northern Territory outback, where I made watercolors, drawings, and photographs at sacred Aboriginal sites in Kakadu National Park in the Arnhem land.
My ethnographic studies of the sacred nature of the Native American and Aboriginal traditions and their stories, as well as their pictographic rock art depictions, have informed the imagery and chemistry of my abstractions in many ways. I always paint on the ground at each site directly to music from cultures all over the world, especially American Jazz. My fellow musicians have assisted me in feeling, expressing, and interpreting through the watercolor medium nature’s sacred colorful ordering systems in a sonic-lyrical manner. These influential audiovisual insights infuse my studio artworks with a cosmological significance and special color-filled sonic energy.
My studio works reflect poetic recordings of these sacred locations and their geological and botanical micro/macro spirit world. The poetic nature of energy, aesthetic character of the field artworks, and my own musical insights are woven into the patterns, geomantic order, and compositions of my artworks in every combination of mediums. I cross-reference knowledge gained from mythology, the earth sciences (especially mineralogy and crystallography), sacred geometry, quantum physics and biophysics with music, art and poetry sources in order to map out new states of consciousness that I can use to process new alchemical color medium systems. These science and nature insights have empowered my artworks with a dynamic visual-sonic presence.
My most recent painting adventure was in Northern India, Rishikesh and the Northern Himalayan mountain ranges, where I recorded the Hindu cultural operating system and experienced the ‘Diwali Festival of Light’.
All Photographs © 2018 Dickie Hill Photoworks. Used by permission.
