Mark Veale

For decades now I have developed strategies to subvert the making of anything that was preconceived. It is my ideal that I do not know what it is I am to make; preparing a meal from what is found in the cupboard not gathering the ingredients to satisfy a recipe.
Recipes for making perceive the outcome and the maker consciously works towards the envisioned result. Stresses can build, apprehension, deliberations, fear of error, doubt, disappointment, a momentary enthusiasm acted upon then later regretted and then reconsidered; its a struggle.
This may be just the journey some artists relish but I want to find works that would not be found if I had been encumbered by the constraint I feel from conscious deliberation and intention. The strategies I use are not rigid they are not rules and they can be employed or discarded at will, much as an ape would swing through the trees. You take what is next to hand, what is needed to keep the journey going. There is a flow, a freedom of gesture a confidence of knowing what you're doing but not where you are supposed to be going. Chance is essential to my way of making.