“My body is a temple to a world unknown, wherein lies a complete person; wise with wisdom of life and death, and of the natural world, in spite of this I am a fragmented soul in the flesh. And this is the work of that departed prophet… the seer of my reality, who, by these depicting marks, on my body is a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that I, as my own proper person am a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even I myself can read though my own living heart beat against them; and these mysteries are therefore destined in the end to molder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.” – Herman Melville

I am addressing that I am in a state of introspection, which only begins my journey to create and clarify my concepts. Working entirely through intuition, I am allowing my departed prophet to speak. I question not what she says, but rather wait until completion to ask “why”? These three things I do know as truth: my roots are deep within the natural, my hand is steady with obsession and perfection, and the influence of body adornment is profound.

I draw my influences from the earth, studying the land as it curves and bends, as it dances with the sky and surges with the sea. I remark at the connection between it and my own body. Using a multiplicity of medium, I take it upon myself to translate an unspoken connection between the two, with specific emphasis on how those influences shape my own identity. My work constantly questions the idea of identity, of souls, of transformation in the physical and metaphorical sense.

My past four years have been spent mulling over, refining, and creating from these ideas while in attendance at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I received a BFA in General Fine Arts with a minor in Animation and Photography in May of 2011.

[ all artwork is my own, please respect that..]
contact: mmckee75@gmail.com

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