ABOUT ME
- blaine bradford
- Intrigued by the mechanisms that weave our social fabric, I’m fascinated with a variety of ideas tied to social conformity and emotional isolation. Within each composition my work tussles with a narrative of navigating within the daily trappings of the day-to-day normality that tend to derail or limit our ability to truly act freely and take possession of ourselves. French Philosopher, Henri Bergson, expressed it best when he stated, “[W]e live inside ourselves, hardly perceiving anything of ourselves but our own ghost, a colourless shadow which pure duration projects into homogeneous space. Hence our life unfolds in space rather than in time; we live for the external world rather than for ourselves: we speak rather than think; we ‘are acted’ rather than act ourselves.” Using this sociological thematic thread, much of my work is developed into a contemporary reflection of living a superficial existence as bit players, much like actors, on the grand stage.