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adrake

Industrial / Trance

milwaukee, WI

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We are all nameless. We have no names in a world where all encompassed is given a title, a genre, a group, a stereotype. Our existence is based on being told what to think, what to feel, what to see, taste, touch, sense, smell. We are told what to do, who we are, what to wear, and what we should be. We are nothing but clay being molded to the likeness of the non-individualistic society. I challenge you to seize the glory of independent thought that is yours for the taking. What will you do?

Everyday we are succumbed to the corporate individuality that is portrayed as the ideal. We are being censored to the point of illusion. Sexuality, the human form, drugs, violence, homeless and starvation problems, governmental roles, hypocrisy, music, abuse of all kinds are all being more and more censored. The more that it is the more we ignore, the more we turn away and the less we will feel or do anything about it. Every limitation set on the allowed of our sight, thought, emotion takes us all further away from the ultimate truth, from understanding, from all paths of life and meaning.

What can you do? Take charge of your ?self? outside of corporate and governmental democracy. Explore, research, and learn. Experience everything without bias. Discuss and experiment in sexuality. See everything that you can. Confront head on the social problems and crime instead of ignoring them in disbelief. Seek out and discover the truth of our government outside of the news. Have an open mind. Do not judge. Find the enlightening foundation of truth in all that is laid before you. Use whatever means necessary to do this and communicate what it is, whether it be art, video, protests, debate, writing, journals, and music. Force these limitations into oblivion and become the individual. Fight to gain your name.

I am a video artist. I create to send messages, to touch some part of each of my viewers. The subject matters are unique in the senses and forms that I choose to explore. I strive to reach the edges of the dark intimacy of life, experience, and sensation, and passion. Inspiration flows to me from music, specific emotions, censorship, happenstance, knowledge gained, and other artists.

My goal with each project is to forcefully gain access to each viewer's intellect and subconscious, to make them consider possible pathways or emotions that may make them uncomfortable. I aim to antagonize the audience in hopes to procreate more open-mindedness, to instill some form of personal enlightenment, and to be rid of ignorance. My work is dark in its nature, based on social constraints, unspoken traumas of life, censorships, abnormalities, and to achieve the ability to feel the extremes of emotions and free thought.

I chose video as my main medium because it is the most versatile art form to conclude all of my goals, as well as the only medium close to a reality that can show everything I want to portray. I prefer to showcase my work more so in the public eye over galleries in such places as nightclubs, television, and festivals because I feel it is a broader way to reach more of the populace. My main focus is single channel video, however I do branch into video installation, computer and web animation, and commercial work to help extend the message of the piece in a stronger way. Within all of my work, I wish to show the world my visions and thought and invite them to indulge in the intellect of humanity.
I am a video artist.

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