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I was born in a small town in Oklahoma. I began painting in oils around the age of twelve and produced a considerable body of work before graduatin...

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Steve Smith

I am trying to produce with my Dream Matter pieces:
(1) An image that will cause the mind to work in the same manner it does while trying to remember a faintly remembered dream.
(2) An image that will always be in flux...an endless visual experience. I render a substance I have entitled Dream Matter.. it is empty of known imagery until the viewer looks upon it and the mind begins to search for images and meaning.. this in turn will cause the viewer to have an endless visual and mental experience no matter how many times they look upon it.
(3) There is a concept to my work.....and there is no concept to my work. The concept I write about is only "my" experience of it... I do not wish to force the viewer to see Dream Matter in the same way I do...I want the viewer's experience to be free from a preconceived idea.
(4) I try with my work to allow a spontaneous organic growth pattern to emerge connecting the fabric of reality to the workings of the mind to emerge for a free form artisic evolution .
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Dream Matter No. 7 700 x 500 pixels (135 KB) 0 Comments	Dream Matter No. 3 / Sea of Forgotten Dreams 700 x 500 pixels (157 KB) 0 Comments	Dream Matter No. 4 422 x 659 pixels (119 KB) 0 Comments
Dream Matter No. 10 450 x 319 pixels (60 KB) 0 Comments	Dream Matter No. 18 941 x 693 pixels (222 KB) 0 Comments	Dream Matter No. 5 933 x 703 pixels (236 KB) 0 Comments
Dream Matter No. 2 700 x 480 pixels (118 KB) 0 Comments	Dream Matter No. 20 476 x 615 pixels (59 KB) 2 Comments	Dream Matter No. 22 641 x 480 pixels (85 KB) 0 Comments
Dream Matter No. 21 / Birth 412 x 551 pixels (52 KB) 0 Comments	Dream Matter No. 9 700 x 480 pixels (139 KB) 0 Comments	Dream Matter No. 23 395 x 548 pixels (72 KB) 0 Comments 15x20 / graphite / illustration board