Why I am a Multimedia Artist.

I call myself a multimedia artist as opposed to a visual artist not necessarily because I work across a broad spectrum of media that happens to be visual, but because I have grown skeptical of the term "visual media" itself. While we experience Art, Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, architecture, film, video, photography in a primarily visual way, it is not the only sense that is activated or stimulated by the work that we see. Our other senses play a role in our visual experience of Art. And the sense that plays probably the most important role is our sense of hearing. The aural/visual connection that we have evolved to possess is so strong that it almost goes unnoticed because it impacts every aspect of our lives, and many of us cannot imagine life without it. This turn to the sonic, and the realization that the sonic realm exists in its own dimension as well as in tandem with the visual is what has led me to settle on the term "multimedia artist" as opposed to strictly "visual artist". or Sound Artist. And while every one of my activities inevitably bring me back to my home base of drawing and Painting, what I have to express as an Artist has grown so far beyond the realm of drawing and Painting, that to not acknowledge that fact would be for me to make Art in bad faith. And for me Art and Faith are just as inseparable as looking and listening.