ManifestoBy Cody Chancellor Where I'm at....I thrive on a myriad of different creative expressions ranging from painting landscapes on location, contract permanent installation art(like totem poles), and interior design gigs large and small. Currently I'm living as an artist in residence at Crystal Creek, Canada. My newest painting series is focusing on our water sources and how important watershed preservations is. People see my art and get inspired for something in there life. I do a drawing and POOF our collective dream becomes a reality it's manifest. We are at a time in creative/technological development that practicly anything is possible. Yeah! What's next I do not know, but it's sure going to be fun. Meanwhile, I keep my computer warm for the odd 3D or digital desire and illustration. Oh, and I also am working on a book for children of all ages under the working title of Prodigy's Ascension. It's a story of a child who invents a device of levitation around the time humanity is blossoming into Utopia. A story of hope, and inspiration. (currently I'm looking for a publisher) I find the diversity of my work leaves me flexible and fresh. It keeps me loving what I do.I have been....As a child I made mouse houses out of clay and colored out of the lines,
much like every other artist. With both my parents devoted to the Arts
(Dad in advertising, Mom a sculptor), no one was surprised that I too
kneeled at that altar. Schooling refined my natural talent and awoke
the designer in me. In San Francisco in 1993 I took my aesthetic and
waded into the emerging digital world. Mastery came easy but the need
for a more personal style of expression continued its siren call. I
freed myself of sixteen-hour days spent captive to phosphorescence,
and went forth to meet the challenge of a vast yet burgeoning unknown. My splash.....styleIn my work, I continually pose the question, “What if?” My subjects are unfettered by the restrictions of reality. Playing with time and civilization, they often bring together past and future to form an alternative present. My background in product design and architecture brings to life the machines and settings in my pieces. My extensive experience in computer game production and 3D animation has contributed to my aesthetic. My work now expresses movement and a three-dimensional, sculptural quality influenced by comics, and animated movies from Bambi to ANTZ. I create possitivity. I hope to draw people away from their anxious
everyday life for a moment, and make them smile. Maybe they will get
stuck that way...smiling. While the surface of my work is happy and
light, there are layers of meaning underneath—sometimes a metaphor,
sometimes a lesson. The story might be a moral message, a reworked fairy
tale, mythology, or the start of a novel. My childhood spent living in the woods is evidenced by the proliferation
of trees and nature in my art. San Francisco’s cultural diversity
is infused in my work; many different people and creatures inhabit my
scenes. Other common elements include representations of my friends
and family, and the activities I love. These bring to my pieces an intimacy
and an energy that I feel is crucial to art. Now I am back in the woods
fed by Crystal Creek and an organic lifestyle. My art is as fresh as
our brussel sprouts and my love For Jennifer, my wife, is my deepest
inspiration. Love. |