Kitchen Talk 07
zane
“Sommons’ work magnifies details of reality that require effort to notice. His practice resists definitions from the given construct and seeks to find the point of release between the known and the unknown.”
I’m Zane, my practice is very influenced by the rhythms, patterns and motions found throughout reality. My typical medium is paper and graphite, these basic materials reflect my effort to remain unintrusive, allowing my pieces to manifest themselves through me.
What’s your creative process?
I’ll begin with an intention, emotion, or thought that I want to articulate. Every mark made to the paper has a very deliberate motive behind it. I’ll continue to layer and fill the page with forms, textures and expressions that become revealed within the space.
What factors have influenced your creation?
The night sky, coastal marshlands, sludge metal.
How does your medium govern your artistic practice?
My main medium is graphite and paper.
How do you see the relationship between life and work?
My life is my work. I strive to articulate otherwise unnameable expressions within us, and hopefully my work can also become other people's lives, even briefly.
When you’re including figures into your work, what are you thinking?
I use lots of figures in my work, they are a powerful tool for allowing more abstracted ideas to enter people's minds. We innately recognize human proportions, lines, or movements, and we desire to feel connected to that. In many of my pieces that don't overtly include figures, the language of figuration remains.
What’s been on your mind lately?
The word should has so much intention and force behind it, who is one to deem that anything should. As well as what is given and received/not given and not received; willfully or not, knowingly or not, intentionally or not.
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Plans for the future?
Keep drawing and learn to make string instruments.
What do you most desire?
And finally, how do you like your eggs?
Zane Sommons (b. 2003, South Carolina) is an artist based in Chicago, IL. He is currently earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.