Red Tiger

Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work. When creating a painted or photographed work using mixed media it is important to choose the layers carefully and allow enough drying time between the layers to ensure the final work will have integrity. If many different media are used it is equally important to choose a sturdy foundation upon which the different layers are imposed. Many interesting effects can be achieved by using mixed media. Often, found objects are used in conjunction with traditional artist media, such as paints and graphite, to express a meaning in the everyday life. In this manner, many different elements of art become more flexible than with traditional artist media. Art is that thing which talks in circles to speak of existence. The expression of the inexplicable, precarious at best, steps in (or should) when words fall short, activating a language that speaks of intuition, appealing to the depths of the psyche, to our collective consciousness. In this mode, my work intends to serve as a psychoanalysis from the particular to the general and vice versa, based on my perception as a filter that distills reality and its characteristic ambiguity. In this way my work aims to represent the multiple paradoxes of existence by means of visual metaphors: metaphor, the language of our intuition. It is the subconscious which must receive this message. These images, these representations—visual, in this case—aspire to be vehicles in which to lose oneself in contemplation for a few moments; to meditate and engage in dialogue with ourselves, review our conventionalisms, analyze ourselves as individuals, analyze the contradictions of our nature by detaching ourselves from our "I" and its prejudices; and to gaze toward the horizon of the ideal, toward the edge of the quotidian, into the changing current of the river through which we navigate. Each work thus affirms a small aspect of the human condition, bearing