Hi. HAS anyone ever told you
that you have the most gorgeous eyes? My name is Nathaniel Kelley, and I make a whole lot of whatchamacallits adorned with fancy-dancy words.
I am a self-diagnosed “agnostic creative” - the medium I use at any given time matters far less to me than my attempt at self-inquiry: the blank page, some fresh paint, a room with seven dozen other humans staring at me…each, in its own way, forces me to collide with my hang-ups, insecurities, presumptions, and dire need to stare someone directly in the eyes and ask “Is it just me or is this all reallllly fucking bizarre?”
To boot, I’m also wicked colorblind. I can’t tell what clothes match or what color my car is. So while I may be gifted with gab, visual art has always been a persnickety widget in my book of creative outlets. For many years painting a landscape seemed insurmountable to me.
And then long, long story short, I fell into having access to an art studio and was suddenly able to just stand there and stare at canvases for hours and hours. A few months in to this daydreaming ritual, ghostly feeling-tones began dancing across the blank surfaces. And thus my furious quest to figure out how to pin down these ephemeralities started.
Since then, all my work has been an attempt to drag back these liminal whiffs - of elation, horniness, or overwhelmedness - that gently pop out of the aether. I architect objects, word-structures, and mental cathedrals to capture and digest the full spectrum of feeling-tones I’ve encountered in my journeys.
My only hope in designing a digital space is to attract open hearts to share in bewilderment about this existence, so that just for an (atemporal) instant you and I can become two mirrors infinitely reflecting the most vital of life’s energies:
Unadulterated, messy, oh-my-god-what-is-this Honesty.