Ryan G. Hill

Everything around me is worth looking at, because the world is full of detail, lines, color and textures, which is more overwhelming than my little brain can handle.  I would prefer to draw every wrinkle on the skin, all the cracks in the pavement, and every single pebble that’s kicked aside., but it’s impossible.  Attempting to mirror the world around me was never the goal, but to twist it into my own signature.  At a young age  I was fascinated by the designs on shoes , and would do my best to draw every  feature down to the stitching. Being able to convert the world I see onto a two-dimensional surface still fascinates me. Although, the translation is never perfect , and rarely matches to the pictures envisioned in my head.  By describing forms through obsessive line work I’m able to keep up with the process. Yet squiggles and fast line hatching begins to take on forms that I never would have thought of , therefore creating a better place of work.  This process seems to be taking me in a direction where I want my work to go.

Not only can the way I draw to be chaotic, but my thinking process as well. Part of the problem comes through  an unhealthy addiction to television and videogames.  The frenzy of flipping through channels and late nights of hyperactive gaming can alter one’s perception of reality.  Thoughts quickly change from one subject to the next leaving me to wonder what I was trying to accomplish in the first place.  Many ideas come from a love of cartoons that characters can take on the personas of people we recognize or relate to.  More importantly, they do everything we can’t do in real life.  Now realizing my connection to boyhood fantasies of escapism, I’ve decided to mix them with social commentaries to describe tales of absurdity.  I create these situations because real life is full of monotonous  routines, boredom, and empty voids we can never seem to fill.  If I were to take my art too seriously I’d never be able to get out of bed in the morning.

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