Biography
I wish to reaffirm the meaning of beauty, which has become maligned or obscured. My work is a minimalistic representation, communicating the relationship between the transcendental and the ordinary not available in the various dogmas of abstraction, or conventional realist styles. I intend to the Transcendentalist view that any scene is a profound mystery existing as the mundane. Using formalism, and an intuitive chromatic scale, the visually ephemeral and inconsequential, is revealed as a moment of experiential wonderment. Beauty is a Mystery, and whether by Art or by Nature, has the capacity to awaken the feeling of awe, and awe is the felt perception of the transcendental foundation of ordinary experience.
Joseph Blanchette
