James Connors

James Connors is an artist driven by the concept of synchronicity. He creates interdependent connections and passages via indecipherable yet highly rendered bio-mechanic components. With the intent to captivate and regenerate our absorption with unacknowledged senses, he is addressing the mental cross pollination that occurs when we associate objects with unlikely emotions, impressions with unrelated movements. He emphasizes the importance of this as a habit for a widened consciousness. In the ordinary world it is expected that unnecessary input is ignored to focus on more productive or highly prioritized matters. Meanwhile all raw perceptions have affected the mind, leaving a cache. James views these disregarded innumerable instantaneous moments as a goldmine of uncorrupted perceptual data. That very pursuit and entanglement between the unconscious and our rationally-biased consciousness for comprehension of perception is what James generates. He aims at nothing less than realigning our psychological cognizance to the sometimes chaotic, sometimes wondrous, symbiotic world. Currently James is a Graduate Art student at Art Center College of Design, lead by published critical theorists and established artists who shake hands with, rough up and contribute to the art world. Strongly influenced from science fiction and the writings of CG Jung, Claude Levi-Straus, and Georges Bataille, and now immersed in the fascinating and tumultuous investigations of art’s multifarious relation to sociopolitical developments, James aspires to be an effective practitioner of psychosomatic art and apply the turmoil and beauty of the contemporary world into a visual instrument of enlightenment.