JR Rapier
My art represents a spiritual transformation and a lifelong process of self acceptance. It exists as storytelling. I feel it gets richer as my artistic journey unfolds. I am consistently exploring new ideas in my work, dealing with the human figure and obscure life events that transform us forever. These ideas want to manifest, as if entities themselves. I am bringing them my talent as an artist, and giving them an outlet to exist and be seen. They are vulnerable and naked stories of the human condition. Telling them from my own experiences continues to fulfill my journey and purpose as an artist.
What a wonderful critique John, THANK YOU. This is precisely the story behind this piece. It is a paradoxical conundrum indeed. Simply put, the less you have the less you have to carry. If your eyes are bigger than your stomach, well, you will either get sick or lose what you can't consume. I absolutely love what you understood in my painting. The psychology behind what it means to be free is so misunderstood. And the places or financial circumstances in which most think they need to have to gain more freedom is a false expectation or attachment to a lie.