Tim Holmes

Works of art are the footprints into the journey of aliveness in an endlessly stimulating world. The exclusively human gift of creativity makes us indeed God’s junior partners in the co-creation of a yet unfinished Universe.

Art has the magical capacity to make us aware of both the outer and inner worlds simultaneously, often so puzzling because while it can sometimes make no sense to our minds, it can feel so right to our souls; helping remind us that reason is too flimsy a tool to access the mystery. Art moves us on a level beneath comprehension.

In my work I attempt to access– through the metaphors of outer forms– the inner material beneath politics and personality that imbues everyday life with passionate richness. On that level we are all family, a truth of which the outer life leaves us forgetful, but of which art always reminds us. In the presence of a good work of art we experience a strange alchemy that can transform the confusing and painful into the beautiful and meaningful, reminding our souls through a silent, intimate exchange, that we are not– after all– alone.

I've always used many media and have focused recdently on film as a means of addressing what I see as a critical problem facing the world on the scale of global warming but that remains largely invisible: the devaluation of the body by global capitalism.

I want to take ART out of the gallery, where it has become safely commodified and often defused by the commercial world, and bring it back to the front lines of people's lives, where it can affect real transformation.  I no longer even see myself as an artists, but more of a "cultural visionary", a person dedicated to seeing the truth and trying to help us all imagine our way into a joyful future.