Long dreams
Lamont Sudduth is an experimental artist who turns his imagination into a personal exploration land. He defines that principle describing “imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will”. And he has created a way for expression in which all his dreams, wishes and interests come true. Reality is not only all we see, reality is also our imagination. So, our dreams are real from the moment of their birth until their death, often too soon.
Lamont Sudduth explains all its worries expressed in his recent works:“In todays post 9/11 world, a moment is needed to breath and reflect . Through my works encouraging deep thought and famous quotes are brought to life through the tension of color filled iconic form, expedited with metallic paints and charcoal. I believe the black line speaks clearly and is a carrier of universal language and strength no matter how curvilinear, straight, or whether used as random spatter”. His words can take you to an imaginary trip to his artistic world, but always knowing that our own experience and point of view from it is the closest one to our own perception.
The current may issue exhibits the Presence of war series by Lamont Sudduth. The black lines he told about take me to the limit between heaven and earth, but also between solid and ethereal, the strong contradiction between the apparent lightness of a flight and the violence’s heavy load arriving from sky destroying thanks to the distance. Limits are hard here like a cloister, too severe in the title piece Presence of war. Geometric figures far away from fluent existence but a result of it. They mark their limits clearly and confront their inflexible vertex. The long walk is quite the opposite, fluent, curved, moving in a provocative manner among reds and clears, luminous but suffering grey tones and serious injuries because of the violent minds.
Lamont Sudduth explains us a paradox of the ones who see life as a geometric entity, trying uselessly to square its circle and impose an inexistent reality even in their minds, causing a lot of pain. To experiment in his art is the expression of a life so real such as his dreams are.
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Photo by Lamont Sudduth