ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

The initial curiosity resulted in a critical firststep - transporting these plastics to mystudio. Then came the processing, sortingand assembling of them. A vital alchemicaltransformation takes place as intuition andpersonal aesthetic judgment are applied torework the plastics into artworks, wherethe objects truly began to speak. And thefinal alchemy is in the eyes of the beholder,as they process the work and render theirown thoughts, feelings and reactions and,hopefully, experience perceptual shifts.While my art practice changes, and evolves,my underlying commitment as an artisthas never wavered. I have always beenmotivated by a professional duty to be awareof and express current social, spiritual andenvironmental concerns through my artpractice. I toe the line between fulfillmentand frustration, knowing that my creativeexpression is only able to provide a glimpseof the greatness that is life, a fragment ofthe ineffable.25