DRURY BRENNAN

"I feel like people should know that my work is not just what it is. I write calligraphy like I play drums, like I'm making hip hop beats from cut-up old books from the 1920s. I take pictures like I'm writing graffiti, using reality as the spray paint. I throw ceramics like funky modern utilitarian music. I come from culture, I come from the confluence of aesthetics. I'm not “just” anything: I think this is part of why I am not really a “discovered” artist yet. The only people who really know about me are those who are curious and inspired themselves, who take inspiration from life to make life, who don't just pigeonhole themselves into a box and leave it there. I don't fit into niches easily. I believe in looking back to the past to make the future. I think the Internet and Facebook has corrupted art culture to one of mediocrity, and my work isn't “shocking” or like “done blindfolded on stage on America's Got Talent”. It's old school, I believe in romance and roses and old books and letters and little kisses and trying to preserve old sensibilities for the new. We are over Niagara Falls in terms of the world- everything is plummeting to its death, and I will be the one sitting in the boat writing a soulful postcard and humming an old soul song, thinking of a rose I once pruned when I was a kid working at the Huntington Garden, telling the kids how it once was." 

 - Drury Brennan, Interview, 2014