Elijah Kane Chong
Santa Fe, NM
Lord Soma’s Helm
Oil on raw canvas over birch panel
28" x 28"
2022
$4000
About
Born in Anchorage, Alaska, raised in Houston, Texas, Elijah Kane Chong left home to study Architecture and Environmental Design at Texas A&M University, which is where he dedicated himself to the arts and specifically to painting. He then moved on to New Orleans to work as an arts educator and establish his career in the post-Katrina revival. There, he met up with like-minded friends and established the Krewe of Motha Roux, an independent collective of far-out creatives and freethinkers. He rededicated himself to art as service, and journeyed to Santa Fe to study Art Therapy and Counseling. He currently works as a licensed mental health counselor and art therapist in Santa Fe, and continues to expand and grow upon his practice and body of work.
Artist Statement
The mission of the Artist is to communicate. Communication is the successful transference of information and is only made possible through the universal language of elemental symbols. To properly communicate, the artist comes to understand the language of the universe through experiencing occurrences in time and endeavors to rework this passing information into his own understanding and voice. In this way, the artist is a machine of biological complexity, capable of reflecting, projecting, translating, rotating, skewing, inverting, and filtering his environment.
The material through which the Artist works are the Elemental Symbols, the point, the line, and color. The tools through which the artist works are the forces behind the three Aspects of Being bound by the Mortal Coil, The Body, The Mind, and the Spirit. These forces are the Will, the Imagination, and the Intent of the Artist. The intention of the Artist is to utilize the creative process as a spiritual vehicle for seeking and exploring the Great Mystery.
The process of the artist is holotropic, through which the Artist transmutes his environment into an objective artifact through recursive ritual, for only an artifact that has as an element of its own composition an instance of itself can truly be a microcosm of its environment. In this way, all elements are indicative of each other, as they all contain each other within their own relative definition. They are all part of the same instance and find themselves in relation to each other through synchronicity. Artifactual elements connect at the quantum level, and this invokes within the viewer a nuanced but radiant and harmonious vibrancy. Then, the viewer too becomes an elemental and critical part of the artifact and will find themselves woven into its manifold.
Art from Elijah Kane Chong in other TAAC exhibitions