Art is exploration. In my work, I explore the boundaries of permanence and impermanence via methods of pigment application and erasure, layering and erosion. An instant, a fleeting memory, a lifetime, the rise and fall of civilizations, strata of bone, stone and soil, in a seemingly infinite invisible expanse in time and space. Each a layer in the postulate of existence. As flesh and blood, I’m simply a vessel existing in a blip in time and space, transporting my consciousness via art and experience as long as I’m able. 

-- Dustin D. Smith