Lex Lucius

I believe that due to our culture and our educational system we have been taught to think and perceive primarily through the use of language. I personally find that self-expression is easier through imagery than it is through words. I have always been driven to create by some unexplainable need, this may be my way of communicating, making up for an inadequacy in emotional language. Not unlike shelter or sunlight, without it I just survive. I understand the value of language and the value of giving our thought-forms meaning by way of language. However, I also feel that we have given up something with our reliance on the need to place concrete labels on everything. This goes even further than just a loss of subtlety in how we perceive, I believe that we are missing whole areas of experience. Often I have dreams of just visual images, startling shapes, intriguing combinations of forms whose meanings I cannot describe in words, but are none the less important. My art is often an attempt to translate these dreams and also my waking "feelings" beyond the limitation of language and into form. My hope is that someone else may pick up the essence of the original pre-language thoughts.

My recent body of work investigates the fullness of life and equally the fullness of its ending. I am applying obvious metaphors as well as esoteric non-linear observations of life. My images are often drawn from dreams, illusions and vague feelings. This use of personal imagery automatically leads me to question mass accepted belief structures and their motives. It also draws me to search for answers within the fabric of our being, beyond the reach of trappings, beyond the limitations of verbal descriptions, through my art.

---Lex Lucius, 2000