MIKE CHAVEZ DAWSON

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Mike sees's himself as a interdisciplinary practioner who experiments in every medium possible with keen favourites of performance arts, print making, jewellery and music pieces.

His outlandish point of view I find truly intriguing and how this vision of art completeness will never fill the void of what he deems to be perfect. Because nothing is perfect. He's an artist that constantly stays on his toes every waking moment and throughout his discussion openly admitted he's got exhibitions planned for late 2017.

I found his use of printing onto handkerchiefs and odd subjects interesting. His ideas express that "art" in its conventional form shouldn't take the place of just a wall hanging and his performance pieces like the Gallery Guard was both funny and enticing as it breaks the normal stereotypical methods of art and why its a sacred place to hang.

He tries to make the middle part of making art enjoyable and not just the run up and the final product and said that idealised vision of what you like and areas of interest make up 80% as an artist but something you're expected to fufill uncomfortable briefs or take on challenges that don't personally interest you so much and gave great advice on how to enjoy those middle parts such as trying out a new medium and the key sometimes to not enjoying something is because it's an incorrect approach perhaps.

He worked on a surrealist magazine called Flux Magazine and commonly refers to surrealist movements like Dada as Fluxism a great term coined for learning students as they adopt terminology. Despite respecting his perspective his approach is gorilla and he loves getting stuck into random projects but some I don't understand or see as having context or a point, whereas some of his works I find incredibly clever and witty, as an anti-art gallery artist he sometimes is slightly hypocritical by making some of his shows very 'art gallery-esque' But I do love his views on magazines that its a entity and one titled 'sex, lifestyle, death' plays a massive part of how I feel about magazines and what I'm trying to achieve in Negotiated Photography with the same view point within the fashion industry.