Jason Thomas Wolfe
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artist statement
I can still hear my mother’s voice, as she would grumble to me, “Look with your eyes and not with your hands.” Thinking back, I must have thought to myself that I had superpowers that only I possessed, the ability to see with my hands, as if to say I had eyeballs on my fingertips.
My imagination may have run wild but my mother was concerned with my meddling with things I did not own. Though in my eyes, as a child, everything was mine for the taking. As an adult, ownership is often thought of in terms of proprietary value and monetary value, a grown-ups argument of “that’s mine” and “no it’s not”. However, this still does not stop us from inadvertently taking. Our eyes function in the same manner as our hands, they take, they consume, they devour. We are consumers in everyway possible.
The comprehension and interpretation of the things we consume contribute to the construction of our unique perception. My paintings are direct consequences of my taking and my perception. I have claimed ownership for the things I did not originally create and recreated them as something new.