John C. Fields

John C. Fields (New York, USA)

NAMCHE BAZAAr, 2022

décollage

14 x 9 inches

NAMCHE BAZAAr is an abstract collage of the valley below the Himalayas, raising issues of the artist’s fear of climbing Mt Everest and how art can bridge known limits through imagination. This collage tries to bring the viewer to NAMCHE BAZAAr, into the artist’s vision of the place below the fearsome peaks of the Himalayas. As we stand in the steep valley gazing up, trying to glimpse Everest, can we conquer our fear of death and climb to the top of the world? Both art and science seek the eternal. We want to know how the universe began so that we can stop it from ending. We want to understand how to keep living forever. I want my art to enter the collective consciousness just by pushing these buttons.