James Connors
Visual Art – Los Angeles
James Connors is an artist driven by the concept of synchronicity. He creates interdependent
connections and passages via indecipherable yet highly rendered bio-mechanic components. With the
intent to captivate and regenerate our absorption with unacknowledged senses, he is addressing the
mental cross pollination that occurs when we associate objects with unlikely emotions, impressions with
unrelated movements. He emphasizes the importance of this as a habit for a widened consciousness. In
the ordinary world it is expected that unnecessary input is ignored to focus on more productive or highly
prioritized matters. Meanwhile all raw perceptions have affected the mind, leaving a cache. James views
these disregarded innumerable instantaneous moments as a goldmine of uncorrupted perceptual data.
That very pursuit and entanglement between the unconscious and our rationally-biased consciousness
for comprehension of perception is what James generates. He aims at nothing less than realigning our
psychological cognizance to the sometimes chaotic, sometimes wondrous, symbiotic world. Currently
James is a Graduate Art student at Art Center College of Design, lead by published critical theorists and
established artists who shake hands with, rough up and contribute to the art world. Strongly influenced
from science fiction and the writings of CG Jung, Claude Levi-Straus, and Georges Bataille, and now
immersed in the fascinating and tumultuous investigations of art’s multifarious relation to sociopolitical
developments, James aspires to be an effective practitioner of psychosomatic art and apply the turmoil
and beauty of the contemporary world into a visual instrument of enlightenment.