Everything at once, sensing you stand to learn the most. Enhance reality, we all live. Talking about my art is like dancing about architecture. Morse code has always interested me, tactile things, paint, clay, paper, plastics, resins, magazine photos, magazine typography, my own photos, screenshots of things that connect with me, digital text, paints, little objects. I read and watch things. I've written three significant things about my work, art, documenting, feelings - living lust, energy, connection, rarely love along the way disjointed on occasion. I have inklings and agility, a beauty and grace I hope with words. I'm a batch of magic, distilling. I had a blog I have an instagram minor accomplishments; I feel.

Gretchen Skillman art statement

Juxtaposition has taken a hold of me. I'm creating mixed media collages. They don't feel simple or ordinary; I discriminate with my photos and words. I obsessively cut out words and phrases, saving hundreds, until I'm ready. Fruition comes as I endeavor to explore the human condition with hopes of never becoming melodramatic. My work is an inquiry into beauty, grace, love, tensions, dislocations, pain, and redemption. I think of my pieces as stories, confessionals and dialogues; uncannily invested in my emotions, distilling a purer concentration of what perhaps comes to others in a more diluted form. I am drawn to stories, whether in print or visual, that dares to show characters that have knowledge they can't quite bring themselves to reveal, so they allude and drop hints, and sometimes drink and smoke, to inspire blurted late-night confessions. A friend of mine once quietly told me that I am unique for the deft, offhand way that I maintain my pixelated charm while exploring devastating loss. My work ranges in size 5X7 inches, 11X17 to 48 × 48 inches and I don’t feel compelled to do larger scales – my work is potentially revealing enough, that I find comfort, in the intimacy initiated by the viewer having to look at a close distance. Perhaps it’s a protective nuance, albeit conceivably illusory. I've also been known to paint, sculpt, draw, and take photographs ....