Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack

Lives and works in New Haven, CT, USA

Artist statement

Baring all, I pick up where my battle leaves off. Piece by piece, ritualizing narratives and embodying cultural legacies I'm influenced by or subconsciously led to produce. Materials are sourced in stride from the mundane, environments, communities, landscape and unknown. I encounter found objects and figuratively reverse their attributes and meaning - often household objects or furniture, because I want you to live and rest within their intimacy. Homage gets paid inward and outward to the history of Assemblage. Like fallen fruit, It's a deep awareness of the forgotten. I'm igniting life within the objects: sculpting them into multi-functional entities, sacred totems of protection, adornments, collages and other forms. My process is intuitive. A divine presence is working, making the secrets productive and enriching the outcome. Routinely I activate most works in detail and in rhythm with an appreciation for antiquity, consecrating and deconstructing them into artifacts and pieces of language through performance and by fate. They become charged communicative tools of ephemera, planting seeds between the cracks of reality and fantasy. New works manifest symbiotically and multiply in the presence of extremely nuanced visceral experiences, mythology, alchemy, the supernatural and archiving of serendipity. Performance empowers me to physically dive into the heritage of storytelling because it's essential to civilization and culture. Majority of the performance is improvised,...

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