Chasing Our Tales
As my Memaw would say, “You're goin' around your ass to get to your elbow!” Yeah, I don't really get it either, but also yeah it’s on point lol. Since the dawn of humanity, we have relied on stories and narratives to embellish life with drama, flavor, fervor, and beyond—sometimes without even knowing it. As an idle handled devil’s workshop, I have been known to look for what I don’t want to find and as my reward, finding what I was not looking for. Self-diagnosed hypochondriac, speaking.
The ancient symbol of the ouroboros—depicting a snake eating its own tale, permeates relevancy through modern culture today. Despite having this tattooed on my forearm forever, the seriousness in the symbol of the old world adjusted its meaning to me as I watched my dog chase his own tail in hopes of… catching it ?
In this collection, I resurrect materials that have found me, and I them, in a gnostic application into my artwork. Providing forgotten and disembodied ephemera with a newfound story and life that is ever-formed and ever-changing as we declare as viewers. We are all authors of our tales.
Dating back to the greatest story ever told, the Bible portrays the bare bones of narrative, the hero's journey as delineated by Joseph Campbell, and the pre-humanistic urge for drama and its covert love affair with life for humans.
Chasing Our Tales provides insight through symbolism, refurbished ephemeral, and paint, in a direct yet ironic example of how we as humans share the insatiable appetite for narrative. One Eve’s low-hanging fruit, another artist’s provoking admonishment of visual prose.
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L.R. Bennett
