THE ARTIST’S PERSPECTIVE
I want to thank everybody for being here. It’s such a great honor for all of you to be here at the premier opening of my first museum exhibi - tion. The museum people blew me away. Each one of them taught me how to behave and how to be a better artist. In doing so, I got to admire how they actually work, which was terrific. My show is really about a rejection of modern art and a return to beauty. I dug back in time and brought out the patterns of the world and then made them current by redrawing them with pin-sharp vector graphics, making them as beautiful as possible. Then, I applied them to something familiar, the bugs, but when you get up close you realize you hardly know anything about these creatures that surround us. My bugs are more related to Alice in Wonderland than Linnaeus’s Taxonomy . We are all about to see them for the first time, as I have not seen the installation either. It’s behind the curtain.
Books mentioned: Alice in Wonderland, The Time Ma- chine, Frankenstein, Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica
Stephen Shooster, aka Shoosty
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