CRYING OVER POWER TOOLS AT NORDSTROM'S RACK

www.davidchipps.com

Beyond the uncanny is the sublime. 

My work is the culmination of fourteen years of art education in which I continuously found myself drawn to German Expressionism, Dada, and the Romantic Painter Casper David Friedrich.  The songs that I create are a fusion of styles and I owe a lot of my creative investigation based on the sounds created on early Skinny Puppy albums, Cabaret Voltaire, and The Cure's Pornography.

The album covers are an extension of the music and are popular culture isotopes that have been destroyed through the use of wave generators.

Following graduation in 2003, I found myself working in the style of Mike Kelley without really knowing who he was.  I found the uncanny negated itself too often and left me feeling hopeless.  So, my current work is in hopes of moving past the uncanny.  To live in the now and return to the sublime.