Ron Meick
Artist Statement
In a world economy, cultural changes are communicated quickly and can be originated anywhere on the globe. They can also move slowly and almost undetected to emerge as obvious. Both can be personally relevant. I believe in a pluralistic and inclusive process of object making. My work contains residue from the visual environment such as world events, archeological, political, economic, scientific and social developments. Image content can be generated in many different forms and do not exclude any means to achieve a meaningful and communicative image that provokes.
Evidence of one’s own presence are the marks or residue that is left behind. These marks are many times transient, deliberate, anonymous, personal, temporary, or convey a decision-making process. Marks using color, shape, direction, size, and other cues make relationships which result in a metaphoric visual structure.