John Ricksen has been steadily mobilizing his imagination and channeling it into a variety of mediums throughout the last 6 years. Whether it be through painting, photography, music, comics, writing, or filmmaking, his creations always burn brightly with dazzling originality and vision. To engage with his art via any medium is to submerge oneself within a world of buoyancy and color, rich with texture and emotion. His works seek to represent and preserve the history of life in its many moments and forms. Some pieces include extensive media (flowers, candies, ribbons, lights, panels, literature, photos, plastic) that have been permanently embalmed and fossilized onto each canvas creating textures that are heavily pronounced often times protruding from the walls on which they hang. Others offer cleaner layers of imagery that replicate and reproduce themselves in unraveling patterns. John’s artistic process is continually evolving and the layers in which his art is assembled are expertly understood and manipulated until each piece has reached its full potential. Through his art John hopes to evoke the sense of mystery and beauty that is always fleeting in each moment of our lives, reminding us of the delicacy of the movement through life, and challenging us to examine our place in it all.