Kegan Smith
Reverence
Much of my work is concerned with the use of animals as a vehicle to explore ideas or emotions. Some works derive from emotions I am processing myself, and others are more of an exploration drawing from an idea, or a series of emotions, as a concept.
Artist/Thesis Statement
Much of my work is concerned with the use of animals as a vehicle to explore ideas or emotions. Some works derive from emotions I am processing myself, and others are more of an exploration drawing from an idea, or a series of emotions, as a concept.
Working in Ink, Watercolor, or oil, I am more interested in figures and subjects as they relate to fauna than with people. And when people, or evidence thereof, are included I am compelled to pit them with, against, or around animals and nature. In my smaller works, they are not necessarily intended to be viewed as sequential art, with one leading to another in a strict narrative. My choices in subject matter are intentional, and, more often than not, are depictions of animals, nature, and people. It displays the dynamics of these subjects individually as well as how they may relate to one another in different ways that I find most interesting and worth exploring in my work
