By their very nature, the recent multi-media works of R.E.C. Chipper Thompson elude easy definiton. Rife with symbols, they are suggestive of the mysterious realms of the occult—ancient scrolls, paganism, the Tarot, dreams, celestial bodies, and the drawings of Carl Jung.
But Thompson is adamant that he is not consciously choosing imagery because of its archetypal symbolism. “When I’m working on a piece of art with a raven I don’t spend a day reading up on raven lore,” he says. “I’m aware of the symbolism and the relationship humans have had with birds over time but I don’t have to self-consciously interject them into my art. The way I depict my subject matter comes out iconically. When I experience nature, I don’t think about it scientifically or biologically," he continues. “When I’m in the field looking at wildlife, I relate to it the way I imagine the people who did the cave paintings at Lascaux looked at animals.”
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