Chad Petska Bio

chadpetska@hotmail.com

Artist Manifesto

I attempt to discover the repercussions of generations of popular culture rooted in new technology;the quite destruction of the old caused by blind indifference that can be both beautiful and horrific. I rediscover the world that is quiet and decaying, leftbehind by nomads in search of new and improved.

I explore in time.  Searching through a moment that has passed I see what is there, or what could be there.  I express the joy in the moment paused yet not stopped, the moment past and the future already determined.  I feel the static of an aura still alive to only the few able to stop long enough to see it.  A moment that feels like home; like you can’t do anything but stay there forever.

I live in that moment that hits me like a truck.  The how dare you of a past that can’t be forgotten and burrows a den in your soul.  Time passing only to remind us that we have done nothing we should have or dreamed of.  The kind of time that leaves scars.  That kind of time that reminds us that we need to keep trying even though we don’t have to.  Time that learns, that pushes, that uses the decay for something beautiful.

I remember that moment and recreate it.  I don’t want to live in the past.  I try to remember to look at the next moment and experience it like I should have experienced the last.

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