Benjamin Sears
Conduits, passages & pipes…
fractals…sections, segments &
parts…cogs in the machine…
armored layers…nooks & crannies…
compression & expansion…
concealing & revealing…
minutia…beasts of burden…
clusters…secrets, surprises &
wonder…crash landings…
exteriors inside interiors…
basin spaces…
searchlights penetrating
the dark landscape of the heart.

The ideas above are what persist in my work. Sometimes these notions attach themselves to recognizable imagery. At other times they insist on ambiguity. Rendering the shapes in this world with both illusionistic and suggestive marks, I invite the viewer to associate line, curve, lightness and darkness with his or her own inner landscape, revealing the secrets beneath the surface of things.