About: Artist Clay Vajgrt

My artwork is a product of my years of searching for common ground among the diverse things that interest me. I have been graced to have experienced worlds of diverse landscapes, animals, and other natural events. These influences are sometimes supplemented with pop culture images, mostly culled from comic books, cartoons, and TV that I grew up with. I use these images in my work so they may reveal some secret mythological story to me and if possible, the viewer.

I admire Joseph Campbell’s work and his definition of art is one that resonates with me, ”divine superfluous beauty” is the way he identifies it. Moments in my life when I have had this experience of the sublime are what I continue to pay attention to. It most often happens for me with exposure to natural phenomenon and art. I hope to pass this along to the viewer as well. These universal pools of deep feeling experiences are what I fish in for artistic expression.

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