Josh Mckeon - Echo

Josh Mckeon

My guiding principle in all creative work is balance. In making pictures I strive for a balance between imaginative and reactive. I love works of art that stress composition without sacrificing a sense of improvisation. I also seek a balance between content and style - works that simultaneously engage the mind and impress the eye. When watching contemporary art I am most drawn to the pieces that seek to reconcile the objective and non-objective traditions – works that acknowledge an historical continuum while at the same time exercising the freedoms born out of the anti-establishment impulse of the twentieth century. In the series “Urban Myths” I juxtapose landscapes with inscapes, using double-exposure effects in an attempt to depict my physical surroundings and their effect on my imagination simultaneously. This painting, “Echo”, was painted in Riverside Park. It juxtaposes an image of Autumnal woods with the portrait of a fading nymph, who, spurned by Narcissus, fled to the forest and withered until only her voice remained.