Mark Ezra Merrill

David Fairbanks Ford introducing MEM to the circuit for his talk on Alchemy, Tarot, and the Periodic Table of Elements as part of Born Free Radicals at the Main Street Museum April 1, 2007

As an Artist, I look for what I cannot always see. I am interested in any available insight, as seen through an internal yet interpersonal individuality. I seek to understand intuition's influence on perception; how precepts of integrity, value and meaning are, in turn, influenced by the emerging experiences of an ever changing bio-political, techno-ecological environment.

A vehicle is a work art - whether it is a shirt, a seat belt, or a word you can't decide how to spell - not that we understand these things or somehow have capabilities of imbuing these objects with a maigickal like life - it is simply because we are these things - internalized or inverted - it is a matter of possession - we are transposed by them - and they by us. Mark E Merrill

As a Painter, I want to challenge my perception. What can be observed can also be manipulated. What is un-known sometimes becomes known, just as what already has been seen, is often forgotten. Uncertainty is timeless and resolute. The most puerile act of the painter is an action of seeing and remembering. My process is deeply dependent on the sublimation of this value, this expanding or contracting of uncertainty.

As an American, I hope to refine my critical awareness. Our Nation State is set on edge by the threat of continual culture uncertainty. Our lives, night after night, day after day, are devalued by this particular image, a carefully commercialized and marketed identity of image, product, and entertainment distracting us from seeing what we can see, if we truly want to.