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Michael Aaron Williams
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My art is a narrative, visual poetry, making a social statement to move the viewer to
action or realization. An important part of my work focuses on the street, the place
where people live their daily lives. This allows me to interact with an audience on
their own turf and observe how they react to the art; it is a social experiment. These
open-air installations focus on the ephemeral state of street people and enable the
viewer to participate in the outcome of the pieces, whether the viewer leaves or
saves them from the street. My goal in depicting street people is to show their
beauty and fragility, while bringing their situation into the eyes of the viewer,
refusing to let them be forgotten or ignored.
Similar to the outdoor installations, my gallery artwork also focuses on the
ephemeral nature of people. Through my paintings and drawings, I attempt to
represent the fragile nature of life, purity, and culture. Paint and ink are the vehicles
by which movement and conflict are expressed. The beauty and pain of human
nature are represented by the creation and deconstruction of the artwork. Rather
than wholeness necessitating beauty, I portray the human soul as complete despite
the fractures. As such, the artwork becomes more relatable to the viewer and
consequently more impacting.
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