Artist's Statement
Regarding my poetic works, I find that I swing between a very tight, alliterative, mathematically compacted style with lots of internal rhyme and archaic speech to a more narrative, impressionistic, storytelling style, to an ecstatic invocational rant. Sometimes I think that Robert Graves is correct and that all poems are praise songs to the White Goddess. Certainly the recurrent themes are the eroticism of nature and pagan sensuality and mystery. Neruda has been an influence, as has Yeats. In the popular music arena Jon Anderson and Ian Anderson both peek their heads around the corner. Dare I say it - Joe Wrobel has brought some Promethean fire down in a dixie cup for me as well.Regarding the art. I've always like layers that interact with each other in complex relationships. I love working in the digital realm because of the speed, power and flexibility it gives me. I enjoy it when a piece has immediacy, pop, an "ancient-future" quality, eternality and just an aftertaste of self-effacing humor.
See more of my work at: www.scottfray.com