Intuitive Ingenuity

One of the greatest struggles in visual arts higher education is more and more students are showing up with fewer and fewer advanced motor skills.  Art making requires a lot more skill than holding a paintbrush.  In the past the greatest task was to show the student how to see, now it is to teach the student how to use a screwdriver.  What compounds this problem is the traditional motor skills are almost obsolete in the age of materiality, the need to use countless materials in order to competently create.  Each material requires a specific set of fine motor skills.

Being raised in the rural south of the 1960s and 70’s meant mastering a wide variety of skills none greater than the fine motor skill of the mind, intuitive ingenuity. 

New American Gothic
6'/4' crocheted video tape of
every episode of The Walton's.