Durand Seay....Artist....Architect....Jewelry Design

Brief Description of Artwork:

The work is surrealistic in nature, creating a representation of the subconscious mind through fantastic or narrative imagery that pursues a symbolism of our spiritual connections. With Seay's intuitive nature, his work is guided by spontaneity, expressing a language driven by structures or forms found in nature. Durand Seay's work, like an architect, presents that examination of movement, an expression of time in space. His thinking is that of a camera, capturing that instant feeling of the wind against ones face.

History:

Durand Seay became an architect due to having a talent in understanding form, space, light, and process. His father, also being the architect and civil, happen to also be talented in watercolors. With an entire family of artists, this heritage implanted the strong desire to pursue the exploration of architecture and painting. In kind, his art combines the intuition of an artistic inner self, and the influences of architecture.

Durand Seay's success in architecture is due in part to his ability to perceive space, not strictly as an enhanced volume to contain, but as an experience that is directly affected by the user, psychologically through movement and time. The understanding of space is gained from the action of moving within. Time can be slowed down, sped up, or stopped to manipulate how a space is made apparent. Seay's thoughtful awareness of human nature affects the sculpting of space and form, weaving enhanced experiences.

Durand Seay's artwork shows influences of three movements in art, the Cubists, the Italian Futurists and Surrealists. Seay, being also one to utilize photography in his work, studied the advent of strobe lighting. This provided photographers the ability to study and dissect movement through producing multiple images. Subsequently, the art of the Cubists was born. Seay's cubist influence is found in the intuitive nature of Picasso. The Italian Futurist, Boccioni pursued the exploration of movement as a relationship of the object to its surrounding space. Unlike his Cubist counter parts, Boccioni was expressing movement three dimensionally through sculpture. Two dimensional concepts became form. Like Boccioni, Seay's art explores that same three dimensional expression, but as an architect doing his drawings on two dimensional surfaces. Finally, Seay's pursuit of symbolism, expressing narratives towards balance, spirituality, and human nature, within his surrealistic expressions is further understood through the likes of work by Dali.

Contact Artist:

404-343-0827

durand@durandseay.com

2344 Glynn Drive,

Atlanta, GA 30316