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Engulfed by endless streams of information, TV, Radio, cell phone, computer, and GPS…. real time, both factual and frivolous. Truth often becomes blurred, and universal thoughts and images often become a wash, and the human condition becomes distorted if not out right lost by the mass image.

      My work looks at time lines of where we have been (collectively as well as personally) where we are and where we could be. It’s about journeys.

    Often my work is jammed with images and metaphors as a Marquez novel or Dylan song, telling stories of the world both socially as well as spiritually.

     I strive to produce thought provoking work that asks the viewer what is being said. What I want is a response good or bad …questions are great! If you are disturbed or moved all the better but not by shock but by something deeper and lasting something recognizable in ones self….

            An internal response to an external image is in my opinion one of the highest achievements of visual art, it is something that stays with you, it transcends borders or language it is global…for all people. It is this desire to speak beyond  cultures to that common thread that links us all which continues to drive my work to what ever end it finds.

                   Ray Gilbert ©

 

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