MEMORIES: I remember the long hours spent flying in
my dad's Cessna, occasionally near to death and with an ongoing lack of oxygen in the high altitude. We flew over most of North
America; I remember long periods of contemplative
daydreaming on roadtrips across the states of Washinton, Oregon,
Idaho, California, etc; and the vacancy of mind experienced during
my obsessive habit of long-distance running. Those meditative periods of passing time feed into the overall
aesthetic of this art.
In addition, my piano studies have had a heavy hand in shaping my mentality. This goes for the mental stamina to memorize those lengthy pieces and embark on styles ranging from classical contemporary works to free
improvisation. It also goes for my fundamental vulnerability based on a fear of performance and critique. It made me familiar with the various possibilities
of the arts from a critically formal standpoint. I no longer
study music rigorously but for the entirety of my youth, I did.
Anyways, it translates into visual art in that I experiment with my work
as an activity (spontaneity versus strict planning) and I tamper
with a variety of objective features such as geometrical elements,
pattern, symbolic images, abstraction and medium as building
blocks similar to the way I have conceptualized music theory.
Otherwise, I gravitate toward an outrageously bright palette
to which acrylic paint does adequate justice. Color is a stimulant
and paint is a luscious medium.
I'm interested in themes such as elegant disarray, feminine
mystique, apocalyptic fear, uncanny paradise and ambiguity.
Erica Eller
Born: August 23, 1983 in Spokane, Washington |
