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My work teeters between abstraction and futuristic representation offering the viewer a kind of virtual “view-space” that suggests a simulated world. It holds up a mirror to contemporary Western desires for control and certainty over nature and reflects back a warped fantasy of the future full of recombinant machina and engineered hunks of flesh that coexist somewhere between physical reality and virtual reality. The figures float in a state of entropy or ever increasing randomness and populate an illusionistic space that references modern 3-D computer graphics and digital animation. They are a kind of genetically spliced man/machine hybrid that appear always on the verge of becoming something else. These works cross an imaginatively consistent vision with the computer itself. I often use the machine as part of the process to morph my ideas in drawing, collage and painting. To me, this not only allows for unintended or arbitrary results to arise during the process, but it also creates an interesting dialogue between the natural world and what is ultimately man made. These paintings can thus be seen as abstract metaphors depicting a synthetic world within a ballet of mysterious space – a world at once repulsive and beautiful, troubling and optimistic, cruel and sensual, hopeless and hopeful. Whether the images are seen as utopian or dystopian is up to the viewer. Eric N. Rue
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