Brian Reed
![]() |
| ||||||||||
My current project sets out to capture, through visual literacy, a spiritual mythos of world cultures combining traditional cultural images, filtering them through my interpretations of the lore of the mythology, and rendering them with my own iconographic style.
With my works, I want to ask questions of how these images are playing into our globalized mythos and how color, shape, pattern and symbology of traditional images play on the universal psyche. In the tradition of visual literacy that empowered the visual arts to inform and educate people of their spiritual traditions, Christianity in the West and Hinduism and Buddhism in the East, I want to use my art to create a visual literacy of a "world mythos." This term, "world mythos," in reference to my art, includes more literal translations of a specific mythology and also works that are more fantasy based using cultural images, mythology and a contemporary dialog, including my own, with media of the current globalizing world.
|
Updated Thu, 04/05/2007 - 1:08pm
mixed
41X62
2006
My approach was to involve many references from literature, philosophy, pop culture, and other painting references with my own life experiences at the time to create a relevant work that has both a temporal and current dialog.
|




