Okay,

 I just added five of my newest wax pastel pieces on my site. I really havn't heard much response about them yet, but I feel pretty excited about them. For me, it's a new evolution phase for the medium I use. Instead of the randomness and doodle like approach I normally do, I've preplanned the images from old scketches and doodles. Some of the doodles I've referred back to are about ten years old.

Yeah, I have lot various forms of scrap paper and sketch books laying around room(which I have hard time keeping clean). Playing around with them and combining a few makes my pictures even more mysterious than before,it seems.

Example of one of the images I've uploaded on my site is titled "Number 6-The Meditation". What is this thing? Is it a part of me? I'm not really sure, but I felt I had to transform it from an experimental sketch to a 30x44 in. work of art. In some ways the incompleteness enhances the mystery of something behind the colors and black lines. When ever I look at this piece I feel a curiosity and a fear of what actually lies behind.

I don't know about other artists, but sometimes the art I creates puts a little fear in me. The Meditation. A face-to-face between the creator and that what is created. It seems to spark my existence with wonder and curiosity to go deeper than ever.

I have. When I created "Brazen#8-The Meditation"(2006) I felt the same way. It felt like I knew my art was going to go through another evolution. That same happen when I did a litho-print(1998), I called it "The Meditation". The unexplained before my eyes, a sign telling me the a change is on the horizon. Okay, I have to stop myself here! I'm now starting to sound more like a mystic instead of an artist.

As an artist, I feel it's my job to carry on with my work and welcome any changes that come along. Just like before.

 L'Andrae' Bradley

http://landraebradley.30art.com

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