Alan Neal

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My work explores the relationship between gender politics and skateboard ethics, the relationship between the tyranny of aging and life as performance. The impossibilities of the freedom of speech and being careful saying what you mean. Impressed by artists as diverse as Wittgenstein and Frida Kahlo, unique synergies are distilled possibilities from both simple and complex discourse, if discourse is at all even necessary. If you can suspend disbelief, please do so. It helps makes the journey so much more delightful.

Ever since I was a pre-adolescent school boy, I have been fascinated by the endless oscillations of life, those rhythms of the universe; life. Death. Young and Old. The ephemeral nature of the human condition is what compels us in story, song, myth, and art. Even though what starts out as hope soon becomes corrupted into a carnival of lust, leaving only a sense of unfulfilled desire, and unrealistic dreams, we, the humans, always find a way to overcome those desperate feelings. Solutions abound. We only need to tap into them. We only need to wear a smile.

As intermittent derivatives become clarified through frantic and frustrated gestures, the viewer is left with an epitaph for the outposts of our condition. With influences as diverse as Munch and John Cage, tensions are crafted from both traditional and modern dialogues. As shimmering replicas become distorted through emergent and personal practices, the viewer is left with a testament to the limits of our world. I just hope the viewer realizes just how wonderful our crazy, mixed up world can be! Insanity can be simply delicious!

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