ARTISTIC STATEMENT

Trained in the realist tradition, I search now for a meaning in the world of art separate from the reality I feel confronted by in everyday.  Reality appears like some façade, asked by the multitude of artists in today’s world to head towards a gem of precision cuts. 

I make my statement against the current trend, the trend that flows like two great snarling rivers around me and take from each lessons they have learned to create a motion of thought, an elevation of principle, deriving from the abstracts and the real, the real which is never so real to me and the abstract which seems to search for communication with the real.  Both to me are one and the same and my most recent goal is to combine the two so that they are joined as if in holy matrimony, but without the attachments that come with it.

-- Trius Fernsler, 2005