Form is the very shape of content and the abstract is pure.

We find ourselves surrounded by and moving, living and operating within a world not of our own making: a fabricated reality. Most things in this world are outside our manipulatory control and have existed in such a state since before us and will continue to exist in such a state long after.

Through my art the world outside my control does not matter and it is separate from my reality of moving through that world. A parallel reality exists: one where the deconstruction of images and objects is defined by an internal landscape of spontaneity, confusion and vitality.

An apparent absence of technical procedure and aesthetic convention may exist in the eyes of the viewer toward the object or the subject that is visually represented in my work, yet what is present may be seen as replaced with improvisatory and schizophrenic qualities exclusively.  The viewer is truly only separated from the artist and the art by an absence of a face-to-face relationship in the same time and space but shares a universal consciousness of visual thought.

Honest, energetic, anti-formal and often, shockingly colorful, the face value of the work is a response to the contemporary idea of instant gratification, directness of the materials, their application and their creator.

What is real is that which I am in the process of creating and experiencing.

My experience while working is reduced to solipsism. Alone and with the self, I work in an ether; that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified – is there proof to the contrary? The work exists only to prove that I exist; that I am an experience outside of the pervasive world.

The meaning: life is an open-ended question; a sensual, personal and captivation of the senses – a communication through the self to another.  Meaning and communication exists through transcendence and multiple realities resulting in some kind of order. Color, physicality, layers, motion, spontaneous line, contrast and risk – they all find a place in my art.

- Billy Stroud