ROBERT St. JOHN

Formally, I like to play with both a relationship of written text to visual image, and a connection and disconnection between three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional imagery. Conceptually, Western European art history has always been a fountain of ideas for me, flavored by my obsessive interest in the Ukiyo-e art of Japan. However, I suspect that the overarching inspiration for my art is the work of the Dada artists of the early twentieth century. I often see echoes of Dada in the things I make - observations on the absurdity of the human condition, and a sardonic subversion of popular culture.