My work centers around everyday living and everyday spirituality. It looks towards the absurdity in both, the beauty in both, and the wonder in both. The work looks into the quest for finding some sort of spiritual sense in our existence. I use a lot of varied religious icons because we are exposed to varied religious images and beliefs. Sometimes I mix up the icons with each other to show how that exposure is also influencing our different beliefs. I put strange mythic creatures into my work to reflect the strangeness of what we believe. These creatures are enshrined or housed in weather beaten urban industrial structures that reflect the seriousness and matter-of-factness about our lives.

Our odd desires for searching out our spiritual side coupled with our odd desires to industrialize, makes for a kind of split personality in us. It's hard to live in both paces at once and kind of funny that we do. My hope is to draw a person in with these contrasting elements and give them a kind of spring board into their own sense of spirit or maybe their sense of wonder.

Thanks for looking at my work.

-Dave Pearson