Artist Statemnt: Joshua “Jammer” Smith
I want to dream and try to capture that dream, that perception of reality. I like the small moments where I struck with the present: physical sensations, troubled thoughts, colors that become more than just light reflected but even flesh of a living person. I like to explore the human form in relation to its perception of the space it occupies and how moments can profoundly alter the perception of the world. I like to experiment with distortion of the human body. It’s in little or even great distortions that we can experience our bodies and the fragile qualities it can possess. I like color for the way it can create physical sensations in a viewer, and I love the relationships between color which can profoundly alter our perceptions of what is real while viewing the exchange between hues. I love dreams, for their ability to translate the human experience and heighten it, inform it, alter it, and to feed imagination. The moment between perception of what is “real” and what is in fact our dreams, what is sometimes referred to as the “Uncanny,” is where I leave the images and forms that I create. My head is filled with dreams.