Todd Schroeder’s Statements Statement from July 2011:
I try not to kill urge and impulse.
I like to tell myself that I don’t care about clarity.
I tend toward the sparse.
Anxiety, usually about the inevitable and the uncontrollable, prompts me to work.
I am a devotee of the fortuitous.
I often see my work as an aesthetic organizing of random thoughts. Arbitrary thoughts organized around an aesthetic position or place…
The engineering of paradox is paramount for me.
I look for solutions that seem simple. The carefully articulated done in a burst.
The notion of resonance is important to me. What seems to be following me around? If I can’t get it out of my head, or if it surprises me, takes me off guard, then it finds its way into the work.
I like puns and I like forms with multiple meanings; open-ended and incomplete arrangements.
