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Seven West East

Combat

Bob Nunn
Painting

Office: A360

Phone: 972 273 3560

EMail: bnunn@dcccd.edu

MFA Southern Methodist University, Art
MA University of Dallas, Painting and Drawing
BA East Texas State University, Art Education

Artist Statement

As you might expect, a question I hear a lot is, where do these ideas and images come from? The answer really isn't all that mysterious -- they're from my mind . . . and that wondrous thing that we humans like to think sets us apart: imagination! And just like yours, these are shaped and colored not only with a whole lifetime of things remembered, but by the never-ending and sometimes bewildering array of new images and information now constantly clamoring for our attention.

The process? Well, for starters, I rarely, if ever, try to "intellectualize" a piece before actually doing it -- I don't start out overly concerned about influences, messages, "meanings" etc. For me, it would be even less workable to try to completely "visualize" a work before beginning.
I simply can't work that way! What I do is "conceptualize", before beginning any piece, but the real
point here is, starting with an initial idea, my work usually just "happens", as it is happening, and it often goes in directions I've not anticipated -- and it this dynamically -- while it is being created, and that's exciting! Sometimes it can even be exhilarating! I know that I am influenced by all that I have ever seen or heard or felt, and also that I am struggling not be overwhelmed with this "dawn of the information age" business. (Maybe that's a generational thing, I don't know --) What I do
know is that my work reflects utter fascination with the concepts of "biotechnology" -- the merging of man and machine -- and that our machines now allow us to peer as never before into our beginnings, as well as peek at our future; that they empower us to preserve this wonderfully beautiful planet we depend on . . . and also to destroy it.