Mike Gesiakowski

Artist Statement

My work references degraded and weatherworn architectural ornamentation as metaphor for our individual memories and how they can decay over a lifetime, obscuring the line between veritable facts and the accuracy of our own recollections. The bright, enlivened surfaces offer a contradiction to this state of decline, as memories are altered and embellished through imprecise recall. The two-dimensional imagery is a flattened, incomplete representation of the three-dimensional ornament found within architecture of the last century. The engagement between the deteriorated forms and the obscured surfaces suggest a temporal and spatial connection to our own brief, chronicled existence.