The old way doesn’t work anymore. Maybe it was never meant to work, only tolerated. This thing you feel… a zeitgeist, ethos, it’s heavy in air.
It’s in every breath, every word, every step.
The new, the next step, the unfolding is exciting and refreshing, and incredibly daunting. It is built upon the shoulders of greatness but, unfortunately, is also mangled and littered with fragments of greed.
I clean things. I put out fires. I recycle objects and give them a new purpose. I turn something discarded to useful, useless to meaningful. While it is important to hone one’s craft and ability it’s more important to capture the essence than be technically correct.
I was taught things are static and permanent but contrary to the evidence the body is in constant flux and dripping in chaos.
I’m Joshua W Murray, a multidisciplinary artist based in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) whose practice moves across photography, collage, sculpture, woodworking, music, and assemblage. I work within the tension of reclamation and reinvention by rescuing printed ephemera, photographs, and found objects and recomposing them into new visual narratives that sit somewhere between archaeology and lyricism.
Welcome to my Sketchbook Journal. I’m not much of a blogger. I’m much better at telling my story through visual art, poetry, and music. Thanks for watching.
Fugue State
Conditional Love
Gods and Idiophones
Texture Series
