Issue 3:1 | Featured Artist | Jon Hounshell

Artist Statement

I’ve always been interested in capturing the world around me through art, poetry and the camera lens. As a collector of nostalgia, I see image making as akin to the collection process—a preservation of moments. My participation in this moment, on this day and in this place is just a segment of a larger ambit along which mankind is revolving and crisscrossing. It is in this way that I feel that history is repeating itself and perhaps my incessant collecting will someday be a tangible link in someone else’s search through time. This inkling has followed me in my many travels and persists throughout my artwork, which reflects our conception of memory, instance, and the passage of time. The creative process for my art involves the tools of today’s professional designer coupled with historic processes of mass communication—lithography, silkscreen and other printmaking techniques. Therefore the nature of my vision and art making itself share the notion of a loop of time, where the past meets present and a stretching of the veil between the two until both are visible and understood to be one with the other.

Jon Hounshell